Hi all you Lyx/xisp/... users and maintainers, I'm the current maintainer of xforms.
The previous xforms version was 0.81, the
current version is 0.86.
Since the version numbering doesn't fit into the major/minor scheme
as used for most of the shared libs, I've had serious problems. Now I
hope, I've found a good solution, although depend on other maintainers
as well on the patience of you users ....
I'll try to make my explanations short and understandable ;-)
Q: The package I'd like to install (lyx) depends on `xforms (>= 0.81),
but xforms doesn't seem to be available, the only package I found
is xforms0_0.81-*.
A: You should install your package manually, using the following line:
# dpkg --install --force-depends lyx_10-7.deb
... or whatever your package is
Q: I'm a package maintainer, my package depends on xforms, what should I
do?
A: Install xforms0.86 and xforms-dev_0.86 and try to make your package
with this library version. If this fails (since 0.81 and 0.86 aren't
API compatible) install xforms0.81 and xforms-dev_0.81 and make your
package with this library.
The ``Depends:'' field in your control file should reflect the
library you used and if you have the right syntax in there
(Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}), this should be done automagically by
dpkg-shlibdeps.
Hope this helps us out of our misery ;-)
Heiko
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