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Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 20 Feb 2004 12:35:52 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 20 04:35:52 2004 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from smtp1.pp.htv.fi [212.90.64.119] by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1Au9sm-0007kE-00; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 04:35:52 -0800 Received: from posti.pp.htv.fi (posti.pp.htv.fi [212.90.64.50]) by smtp1.pp.htv.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A2DF8099F; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:35:46 +0200 (EET) Received: from route.intranet (funkyware.pp.htv.fi [62.78.135.115]) by posti.pp.htv.fi (8.11.1 (Revision 1.5+JAGae91741+JAGae92668) /8.11.1) with ESMTP id i1KCZjh19937; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:35:45 +0200 (EET) Received: from share.intranet ([172.16.1.2] ident=q-funk) by route.intranet with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Au9sd-0001vR-00; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:35:43 +0200 Received: by share.intranet (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:35:41 +0200 From: "Martin-Éric Racine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: "Provides: xlib6g" needed in 4.3.0 X-Mailer: reportbug 2.39 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:35:41 +0200 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_02_18 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.0 required=4.0 tests=DATING,HAS_PACKAGE autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_02_18 X-Spam-Level: Package: xlib6g Version: 4.2.1-3 Severity: normal 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. 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! 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! -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux share 2.4.24-grsec-486 #6 su helmikuun 1. 19:15:35 EET 2004 i686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ignored: LC_ALL set to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Versions of packages xlib6g depends on: ii libxaw6 4.2.1-12.1 X Athena widget set library (versi ii xlibs 4.2.1-12.1 X Window System client libraries -- no debconf information --------------------------------------- Received: (at 233867-done) by bugs.debian.org; 20 Feb 2004 16:16:37 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 20 08:16:37 2004 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from dhcp065-026-182-085.indy.rr.com (redwald.deadbeast.net) [65.26.182.85] by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1AuDKO-0006t0-00; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:16:36 -0800 Received: by redwald.deadbeast.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E2007640E8; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:16:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:16:35 -0500 From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#233867: "Provides: xlib6g" needed in 4.3.0 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="sfyO1m2EN8ZOtJL6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_02_18 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.0 required=4.0 tests=DATING,HAS_BUG_NUMBER, HAS_PACKAGE autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_02_18 X-Spam-Level: --sfyO1m2EN8ZOtJL6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable severity 233867 wishlist tag 233867 + wontfix thanks 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: % apt-cache show equivs Package: equivs Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 83 Maintainer: Fabio Rafael da Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 2.0.6 Depends: perl|perl5, debhelper, dpkg-dev, devscripts, make, fakeroot Filename: pool/main/e/equivs/equivs_2.0.6_all.deb Size: 17888 MD5sum: 27a333b3d17a0f8f3b0a7dc0e0251663 Description: Circumventing Debian package dependencies This is a dummy package which can be used to create Debian packages which only contain dependency information. . This way, you can make the Debian package management system believe that equivalents to packages which other packages do depend on are actually installed. . Another possibility is creation of a meta package. When this package contains a dependency as "Depends: a, b, c", then installing this package will also select packages a, b and c. Instead of "Depends", you can also use "Recommends:" or "Suggests:" for less demanding dependency. . Please note that this is a crude hack and if thoughtlessly used, it might possibly do damage to your packaging system. And please note as well that using it is not the recommended way of dealing with broken dependencies. Better file a bug report instead. Incidentally, Konqueror, the KDE browser, has a feature that allows you to customize the User-Agent string supplied on a per-site basis. I don't need this functionality anymore, but when I did I found it very useful for getting access to sites that used very stupid JavaScript, and excluded non-IE browsers. Closing this report. --=20 G. Branden Robinson | Ambition: an overmastering desire Debian GNU/Linux | to be vilified by enemies while [EMAIL PROTECTED] | living and ridiculed by friends http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | when dead. -- Ambrose Bierce --sfyO1m2EN8ZOtJL6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkA2MuMACgkQ6kxmHytGonweUACdG19sP3I0IyHOzCs6fw7BTvIT hd4AnA65IGp7et1aEYgE4dH1gzE6bhhm =Ysei -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sfyO1m2EN8ZOtJL6--