Andreas Bach Aaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fredag den 5. marts 2004 23:08 skrev Chris Waters: >> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:09:41PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> > You are right, it does not work, because xlibs in sid conflicts >> > with xlib6g. However I think rebuilding the netscape source >> > package on sid would work.
>> As would installing a local (non-Debian) version of Netscape, which >> is what most people do with software that's not supported by >> Debian. I'm not sure why anyone in Debian should go out of their >> way to support software that is explicitly no longer supported by >> Debian. > A deb-package outside Debian that brings Netscape 4.7x would be just > fine for me - and a good compromise. A new entry on apt-get.org? I have invested 15 minutes rebuilding the netscape* packages (apt-get source, dch -i, s/xlib6g/xlibs/ in the Build-Depends line) from woody. deb http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/netscape4sid/ sid/ Completely untested because I do not use netscape, I just was wondering whether it was difficult.. cu andreas
