On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 04:50:16PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Package: autoconf
> Version: 2.59a-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Various package need a build dependency on libxt-dev because the
> configure script checks for X11/Intrinsic.h which is part of
> libxt-dev but otherwise do not need libxt-dev at all.

> See for instance http://bugs.debian.org/233969 for a discussion
> about it, that also has a patch.

Changing the behavior of the macro would break existing applications.
The discussion at this url doesn't take that into account.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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