[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#714758: [ctn] please transition from lesstif2 to motif

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Debian-Med Packaging Team,

On 02-07-13 16:25, Graham Inggs wrote:
> The lesstif2 package on which your package depends or build-depends is
> destined to be removed from the archive before the release of Jessie. 

The ctn package is one of the last packages in the lesstif2-to-motif
transition [2,3] that still needs to change the build dependency. For
most other packages that did not do the transition themselves, NMU's
were created and most have been applied in the mean time. I am however
reluctant to create an NMU proposal for ctn because of the license issue
in bug 724935 [4]. It seems to me that if nobody is going to do that
work, it is better to remove ctn from Debian.

What do you propose? We should get rid of lesstif2 in Debian, so this
ctn issue needs to be solved one way or another. (Side note: bug 714750
suggests the build dependency is not even needed).

Paul

> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/lesstif2motifTransition
[2] http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/motif.html
[3]
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=lesstif2motif;users=openmotif@packages.debian.org
[4] http://bugs.debian.org/724935

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