Hello all, Currently the X Strike Force is preparing to upload X11R7 to unstable. Currently we have no package available for libXaw8, which we would like to remove from the archive. The reason you are all being emailed is that one of your packages (listed by maintainer below) either depends or build-depends on libxaw8.
The reason for wanting to kill xaw8 is to comply with the goals of upstream. Xaw8 is identical to Xaw7 except that it adds support for Xprint. Xprint, however, is being largely abandoned by upstream. The goal for xprint was to provide a unified drawing interface for programs to draw to the screen and the printer. However, it turns out that the x11 drawing functionality is not a good way to implement this. In addition, there are internal architecture problems with xprint (related to the internals of x servers). The goal for upstream is to replace xprint with cairo, which will provide a more sane api for drawing to both the screen and paper. Because xaw8 is functionally equivalent to xaw7 in every way except for the xprint suppot, if your app does not need this specific feature then you can safely depend on xaw7, leaving us to remove xaw8 from the archive. If any of you do specifically need this support, please let us know (M-F-T set to debian-x@lists.debian.org) so that we can support you as necessary. If you don't need this specific feature though, *please* let us know so we are sure we can kill this package without harming anyone. As a side note to the qa team, I'll be NMU'ing the 7 packages that are orphaned and depend on xaw8, so you guys don't have to worry about it. - David Nusinow --------------------------------------------------- Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xmem Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ibm-3270 Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xbill Debian Edu Developers <debian-edu@lists.debian.org> italc Scott M. Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xmeter Benjamin Drieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xbvl Debian QA Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gnushogi hanterm-xf ppxp xbatt xconq xruskb xsysinfo Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> brltty Siggi Langauf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gxine Keita Maehara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kinput2 Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nas Jose Carlos Medeiros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> snake4 Ari Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drscheme Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> playmidi teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org> tetex-bin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
