Package: libxaw7-dev, libxaw8-dev, libxpm-dev Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Severity: minor
Hello, For some reason the libxpm4-dev virtual package is Provided by libxaw7-dev and libxaw8-dev, not by the libxpm-dev package as one would expect. (Indeed, one would expect libxpm4-dev to be the real package and libxpm-dev to be the virtual package, not vice versa! I suppose that would be much more difficult to transition correctly to though.) I asked why this strange state of affairs was the case at http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2006/01/msg00584.html but did not receive any answer, so am filing this bug. Even if there is a good reason for this, it ought to be documented somewhere (maybe in the relevant package descriptions) since it causes unexpected behavior for people who put libxpm4-dev in their Build-Depends. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages libxaw7-dev depends on: ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.3.5-12 GNU C Library: Development Librari ii libice-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library deve ii libsm-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management ii libx11-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li ii libxaw7 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library ii libxext-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxmu-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxp-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System printing extension ii libxpm-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X pixmap library development files ii libxt-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics development f ii x-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X protocol development files libxaw7-dev recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]