[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#612534: Depends on xview

Andreas Tille andreas at an3as.eu
Wed Feb 9 07:53:18 UTC 2011


Hi Elmar,

thanks for the hint.  Xview is only in Suggests anyway - so there is no
reason to not drop the package before arb is uploaded (which is planed
since a long time, but ...)

Kind regards

       Andreas.

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 01:23:07AM +0100, Elmar Prüße wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The last xview dependency has been removed in version 5.1.
>
> See http://bugs.arb-home.de/changeset/5226
>
> You can just remove the dependency from the package.
>
> regards,
> Elmar
>
>
>
> On 02/09/2011 12:14 AM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
>> Package: arb
>> Severity: important
>>
>> arb depends on xview which is dead upstream and orphaned and
>> one of the few remaining packages still depending on it.
>>
>> Please change arb to run without xview for Wheezy, so that we
>> can go ahead with the xview removal.
>>
>> Getting rid of xview would also allow to run arb on amd64...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>          Moritz
>>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: 6.0
>>    APT prefers unstable
>>    APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>>
>> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
>> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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