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Re: Bug#13994: xlib6: Should provide elf-x11r6lib



Joey Hess wrote:
> Herbert Xu wrote:
> > /etc/dpkg/shlibs.default get used? It's because many developpers use
> > Xaw3d or other xaw replacements which do NOT provide shlib files.  So on
> > these systems /etc/dpkg/shlibs.default will be used instead of the
> > correct shlib file.
> 
> Um, no, these files exist, and have existed for a long while (nextaw, for
> example, has *always* has a shlibs file, from the first debian release):
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root           27 Oct  3 15:03 nextawg.shlibs
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root           27 Oct  3 16:11 xaw3dg.shlibs
> 
> joey@kite:/var/lib/dpkg/info>cat nextawg.shlibs 
> libXaw  6       xlib6g (>= 3.3-5)
> joey@kite:/var/lib/dpkg/info>cat xaw3dg.shlibs
> libXaw  6       xlib6g (>= 3.3-5)

In that case, I retract my statement.  (But there are still quite a few
packages in the current Packages.gz that depend on xlib6 and libc6 which seems
quite suspicious).

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