On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:35:41PM +0200, Martin-=EF=BF=BDric Racine wrote: > > Package: xlib6g > > Version: 4.2.1-3 > > Severity: normal > >=20 > > I have an old Netscape 4.77 dating back from Potato that I absolutely > > need to access certain sites that refuse to work with Mozilla or even > > Opera. Unfortunately, it is dependant upon xlib6g, which seems to be > > absent in XFree86 4.3.0.=20 > >=20 > > Luckily, I recall reading somewhere that it should be possible to > > generate xlib6g if needed (it simply was omitted from the Debian > > release because almost nothing depends upon it nowadays, IIRC), but I > > do not remember what to enable in the building scripts to get the > > required xlib6g_<version>_<arch>.deb archive. Could you please tell > > me? Thanks! > >=20 > > Alternately, if some existing 4.3.0 packages are supposed to > > "Provides: xlib6g, libxaw6" this might work. If this is possible, > > could you tell me which packages to install? Thanks! > > I am sorry, but the xlib6g package name is was deprecated in the woody > release and will be entirely absent in sarge. > > You may be able to rectify your problem, however, by using the "equivs" > package:
I know about equivs. This however doesn't tell me the name of the XFree86 4.3.0 package providing an equivalent to this lib. > Incidentally, Konqueror, the KDE browser, has a feature that allows you > to customize the User-Agent string supplied on a per-site basis. Many other browsers do also, but this doesn't fix that broken website. Trust me, I already tried everythingand KNOW for fact that I MUST use that old Netscape to access that particular site. I therefore need xlib6g and libxaw6 equivalents in XFree86 4.3.0 and would appreciate you telling me which packages provide these functionalities noawadays. :) -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
