Re: [timshel@pobox.com: X4 phase 2 packages issue ...]

2000-09-12 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:16:49PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Josip had expressed his intention to rename xpm4g to libxpm and more > specifically, he had expressed his intention to do it smoothly: > > | xpm (3.4k-2) unstable; urgency=low > | > | * Following Joel Klecker's example (

Re: [timshel@pobox.com: X4 phase 2 packages issue ...]

2000-09-12 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:16:49PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Josip had expressed his intention to rename xpm4g to libxpm and more > specifically, he had expressed his intention to do it smoothly: > > | xpm (3.4k-2) unstable; urgency=low > | > | * Following Joel Klecker's example

Re: [timshel@pobox.com: X4 phase 2 packages issue ...]

2000-09-12 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 02:11:19PM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote: > Let this serve as a wake-up call to recalcitrant package > maintainers. ROTFLMAOL! > I NMU'ed 4 packages myself to modernize them WRT the xpm > dependency, and only one (fvwm

Re: [timshel@pobox.com: X4 phase 2 packages issue ...]

2000-09-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 02:11:19PM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote: > But surely having xlibs Provide: xpm4g (at least for a while, until all > dependancies on xpm4g have been fixed to libxpm4) will make the upgrade > path that much easier ... at the moment a number of packages still depend > on xpm4g s

Re: [timshel@pobox.com: X4 phase 2 packages issue ...]

2000-09-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 02:11:19PM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote: > Let this serve as a wake-up call to recalcitrant package > maintainers. ROTFLMAOL! > I NMU'ed 4 packages myself to modernize them WRT the xpm > dependency, and only one (fvw

Re: [timshel@pobox.com: X4 phase 2 packages issue ...]

2000-09-11 Thread Timshel Knoll
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:42:28AM -0400, Franklin Belew wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:33:56AM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote: > > Also, I have noticed that some of the packages you mention that are having > > problems with libxpm4 depend directly on xpm4g rather than libxpm4, so > > some of thes

Re: [timshel@pobox.com: X4 phase 2 packages issue ...]

2000-09-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 02:11:19PM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote: > But surely having xlibs Provide: xpm4g (at least for a while, until all > dependancies on xpm4g have been fixed to libxpm4) will make the upgrade > path that much easier ... at the moment a number of packages still depend > on xpm4g

Re: [timshel@pobox.com: X4 phase 2 packages issue ...]

2000-09-11 Thread Timshel Knoll
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:42:28AM -0400, Franklin Belew wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:33:56AM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote: > > Also, I have noticed that some of the packages you mention that are having > > problems with libxpm4 depend directly on xpm4g rather than libxpm4, so > > some of the

Re: [timshel@pobox.com: X4 phase 2 packages issue ...]

2000-09-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Franklin Belew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > xpm4g is so old and out of date that it shouldn't be poerpetuated I really fail to understand your fixation on this (non-)issue. Josip had expressed his intention to rename xpm4g to libxpm and more specifically, he had expressed his intention t

Re: [timshel@pobox.com: X4 phase 2 packages issue ...]

2000-09-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Franklin Belew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > xpm4g is so old and out of date that it shouldn't be poerpetuated I really fail to understand your fixation on this (non-)issue. Josip had expressed his intention to rename xpm4g to libxpm and more specifically, he had expressed his intention

Re: [timshel@pobox.com: X4 phase 2 packages issue ...]

2000-09-11 Thread Franklin Belew
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:33:56AM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote: > Also, I have noticed that some of the packages you mention that are having > problems with libxpm4 depend directly on xpm4g rather than libxpm4, so > some of these problems could be fixed by making xlibs provide xpm4g. > This won't wo

Re: [timshel@pobox.com: X4 phase 2 packages issue ...]

2000-09-11 Thread Franklin Belew
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:33:56AM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote: > Also, I have noticed that some of the packages you mention that are having > problems with libxpm4 depend directly on xpm4g rather than libxpm4, so > some of these problems could be fixed by making xlibs provide xpm4g. > This won't w

[timshel@pobox.com: X4 phase 2 packages issue ...]

2000-09-11 Thread Timshel Knoll
[please CC all replies to me, I'm not on -x] Sorry, I posted this to Branden last time, so after seeing his changelog comment, thought I'd better post it to the list :) - Forwarded message from Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 22:45:46 +1100 From: Timshel Knoll <

[timshel@pobox.com: X4 phase 2 packages issue ...]

2000-09-11 Thread Timshel Knoll
[please CC all replies to me, I'm not on -x] Sorry, I posted this to Branden last time, so after seeing his changelog comment, thought I'd better post it to the list :) - Forwarded message from Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 22:45:46 +1100 From: Timshel Knoll