severity 300251 wishlist tags 300251 + wontfix thanks Sorry but I think scilab needs patching for the following reasons:
1. xaw3d is a fork of Xaw6.1, not a replacement for Xaw7. 2. IF scilab needed a Xaw7 API it should link Xaw7, not Xaw3d which is not basically compatible with that. If not, who cares to link Xaw7 instead of Xaw6 and so Xaw3d? If it is not required, WHY scilab does that kind of check? 3. Xaw3d maintainer is passed away in 2004 unfortunately, so I have no idea if someone will care to update the lib to be plain compatible with Xaw7. Note that I had no time to check how much Xaw7 is different from the previous edition and Xaw3d as well. 4. Changing soname without a specific API/ABI reason is silly and could possibly break programs which link the current solib. For sure it would require a questionable transition for a few programs in debian. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
