I see on Motif's transition tracker [1] there are a number of packages with status 'unknown'. I believe this is caused by packages that build-dep on *tif-dev, but do not actually link any of the *tif libraries.
I have investigated and found that in most cases there is a Motif GUI that is no longer being built or is being built but not distributed. I don't believe these should block the transition and it is up to the maintainer whether to now start distributing a Motif GUI (since we now have a "proper" Motif in main), or simply prevent it from being built and remove the build-dep. I have filed the following bugs: ctn - #714750 ferret-vis - #714752 freesci - no bug filed (uses some macros and definitions from Motif headers) gromacs - #714753 (fixed by Nicholas Breen) magics++ - #723576 xshisen - #714696 We should still track these, and so I suggest the following changes to the ben file: title = "motif"; is_affected = .build-depends ~ "lesstif2-dev" | .build-depends ~ "libmotif-dev"; is_good = .depends ~ "libxm4" | .depends ~ "libmrm4" | .depends ~ "libuil4" | .build-depends ~ "libmotif-dev" ; is_bad = .depends ~ "lesstif2" | .build-depends ~ "lesstif2-dev"; Regards Graham [1] http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/motif.html
