[Xastir] Fwd: Bug#714672: [xastir] please transition from lesstif2 to motif

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2013, David A Aitcheson wrote:

> A heads up & FYI. (It is a good thing that this ended up in my XASTIR
> folder due to the subject!)


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Bug#714672: [xastir] please transition from lesstif2 to motif
> Date: 	Mon, 01 Jul 2013 18:49:30 +0200
> From: 	Graham Inggs <graham at nerve.org.za>
> To: 	maintonly at bugs.debian.org
>
> The lesstif2 package on which your package depends or build-depends is
> destined to be removed from the archive before the release of Jessie.
> More information can be found in the Debian wiki [1].
>
> Please update your package to build against the motif package instead.
> In most cases this can be done by simply replacing the build-depends on
> lesstif2-dev with libmotif-dev, however please do verify proper
> behaviour before uploading.

Xastir should configure/build just fine with Motif if Motif -libs and -devel packages are installed;  With LessTif if the Lesstif -libs and -devel packages are installed.  It should be just a matter of tweaking the .deb package to spell out different dependencies.  I don't mess with DEB packages so wouldn't be the one fixing it.

For RPM packages it would be the *.spec.in files that would need to change (not directly relevant to this thread, but an example of a "package" file).

On OpenSUSE-12.1 I have these RPM files installed, which make Xastir compile with Motif instead of Lesstif:

   openmotif-devel-2.3.2-8.1.3.x86_64
   openmotif-libs-2.3.2-8.1.3.x86_64

I hope that helps the Debian package maintainer to figure out the fixes for his .deb package.

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