Russ Allbery wrote: > Here's a list of packages that install binaries into /usr/X11R6/bin and > don't have lintian overrides for it. In spot checks, about a quarter of > these packages use imake. And that's just the packages with binaries; > there are a number of other packages that don't install binaries but that > still use imake (I happen to maintain one of them, a font package). Well, let's see what the scope of imake in the /usr/X11R6/bin issue specifically is. (The fonts issue seems to be more of an issue.) Actually, it seems that there are an even larger percentage than you thought. So I was very wrong. Sigh.
Imake is considered dead-except-for-routine-maintenance upstream as far as I can tell, so best practice would be to migrate away from it. Unless someone plans to adopt it. Doing some sorting of this list, I find that these originate from Xorg, so will no longer use Imake: > lbxproxy > proxymngr > twm > xbase-clients > xdm > xdmx > xfs > xfwp > xnest > xserver-common > xserver-xorg > xutils > xvfb These don't build-depend on xutils (so either they don't use imake or they have a serious missing Build-Depends bug): > buici-clock > emelfm > fte-xwindow > fvwm95 (fvwm95 is desperately obsolete software which should really be removed anyway.) > gerstensaft > gipsc > gradio > hamsoft > ibp > lm-batmon > lsb-core > pgaccess Orphaned, QA. > ppxp > ppxp-x11 > qcam > tkdesk > twlog > videogen > wmcpu > wmscope > xclips > xdkcal > xgdipc > xlockmore > xlockmore-gl > xvkbd > yank This leaves a list of possible Imake users. I went through these by hand, and most of them did use Imake. Probable non-imake users: > hanterm-classic > hanterm-xf (These two appear to have both Imake and configure/Make build systems, but the latter is used.) Definite imake users: > bugsx > ctwm -- should be straightforward to convert, by copying configury from twm, of which it is a fork > isdnutils-xtools > ivtools-bin > ivtools-dev ivtools: severely out of date and busted packages, with a particularly insane configuration and build system. > kdrill > kinput2-canna (source kinput2) > kinput2-canna-wnn (source kinput2) > kinput2-wnn (source kinput2) > kterm -- should be trivial to convert, by copying configury from xterm, of which it is a fork > lwm > olvwm (source xview) > olwm (source xview) > mctools-lite > mgp > oneko -- very simple Imakefile, should be an easy conversion > pixmap > plotmtv > seyon > skkinput > vtwm > wmavgload > wmdate > wmnet > xautolock > xbatt > xbattbar > xcal > xcalendar-i18n > xcb > xclip > xdu > xengine > xfaces -- has an alternate "noimake" Makefile > xfishtank > xfm > xinput > xipmsg > xlbiff > xli > xmeter > xmix > xmon > xpostit > xrn > xsysinfo -- orphaned, QA. > xtel > xtoolwait > xtrlock -- has a 'noimake' Makefile > xview-clients (source xview) > xviewg (source xview) > xviewg-dev (source xview) > xxkb > xzoom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
