Re: debian unstabel compilation error

["Michel Dänzer" <daenzer at debian dot org>]

On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 17:50 +0200, Arne Anka wrote:
> > > my point was, that your proposal only would affect people reading this
> > > list.
> >
> > No, it would affect everybody using the packages with the fixed
> > build-dependencies.
>
> right, as i said first: only people using and knowing of flavio's 
> package.

Who else would be affected by the problem in the first place?


> > I fail to see what those have to do with this issue.
>
> huh? they're the root of the evil -- 

No, the root of the issue is that the package build-dependencies haven't
been adapted to the current X packages in sid.

> every attempt to find the missing headers with apt-file or the 
> debian-site is doomed to fail because the files/indices/indexes(? bad 
> latin but maybe correct english?) used to find  
> the package containing the both headers undoubtedly yields  
> "xlibs-static-dev".
> and this is wrong.
> # apt-file search xf86misc.h
> xlibs-static-dev: usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions/xf86misc.h
> # apt-file search xf86mscstr.h
> xlibs-static-dev: usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions/xf86mscstr.h

Looks like you haven't run apt-file update in a while.


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