clone 365714 -1 reassign -1 xaw3dg-dev retitle -1 Depends on libxaw8-dev and breaks building packages thanks
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My question is now whether to switch away from libxaw8 is a wishlist >> issue or in fact a fixed plan? What's the appropriate severity for >> "drop libxaw8" bugs, and what should maintainers do? > > libxaw8 is abandoned upstream and there are no plans to fix it for the Xorg7 > transition. This is a >= serious bug for any package still build-depending > on libxaw8-dev, as they FTBFS and this isn't going to be fixed on the xaw8 > side. Oh, that's much clearer and more severe than I expected. Francesco, will you be able to fix that soon, so that emacs21 can be built again (and probably others?). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
