On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 08:07:24PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 11:19:32AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > your packages don't include xlibs-pic, which make libxosd-dev and libxosd2 > > uninstallable. I am not entirely sure why the libxosd packages depend on > > xlibs-pic and not xlibs, so it could simply be problem during the build > > of it. > > All the static libraries in my build of XFree86 are built -fPIC, whereas > they aren't by default in 4.2.1 - hence xlibs-pic. xlibs-pic went away > in 4.3.0; if you want to use libxosd2, I suggest recompiling it against > 4.3.0.
Ok, i suppose a bug should be filled against libxosd once 4.3.0 reach the archive, so that it will get rebuilt. > Nothing I can do. And no, I'm not going to make an xlibs-pic package, > virtual or otherwise. Why ? Would the proper solution not be for xlibs to provide xlibs-pic ? Friendly, Sven Luther
