severity 307512 important reassign 307512 lesstif2 thanks Hi Peter,
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:05:36PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> >I agree, it looks like a library error on first sight. I'm not sure how
> >this linking works in Debian though: Shouldn't it be possible to have both
> >installed?
> The thing is that they seem to install libraries with the same name.
> openmotif places them in /usr/X11R6/lib, lesstif in /usr/lib. The problem
> is that openmotif's libraries "win", so nedit won't start.
I would consider this a critical bug in openmotif, because installing it
breaks unrelated packages. I think it's also a violation of the sarge
release policy by extension of:
Packages must not install programs in the default PATH with
different functionality with the same file name, even if they
Conflict:.
However, the bug is only present in the version of openmotif in woody,
because the version in sarge has a different soname; so there's no sense in
asking the openmotif maintainer to fix it.
A solution for nedit would be for lesstif2 to conflict with libmotif.
Better yet would be for lesstif-dev to keep /usr/lib/libXm.so, but to change
the soname to something like libXm.so-lt.2 to avoid ABI conflicts.
Or, if lesstif is stil aiming for full binary compatibility, fixing the ABI
up to match would be fine too. :)
Cheers,
--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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