On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:55:16AM -0600, Jacques Normand wrote: > During the passage from xfree to xorg, libxft1 has been dropped in favor > of libXft2. I have no problem with that except that libXft1 is not > installable anymore (etch system). It depend on the old xfree packages.
> It is a problem since I have a few executables which link to this > library at runtime, and I only have the executables so no recompilation > possible. (GaussView but that does not matter). Is there a technical reason > to have dropped the version 1 of the library? Yes, it is an obsolete library that's not used by any software in Debian. >From a security POV, it is always better to *not* ship packages from obsolete library versions when we can avoid doing so. Even in sarge, the description of the package said: This is an older, deprecated version of the Xft library, provided only for applications that have not yet been updated to use version 2 of the Xft library. I'm sorry, but it's not practical for us to support old libraries indefinitely just for the benefit of a handful of binary-only pieces of software that we don't distribute (or know anything at all about, really), and the nature of the xfree86->xorg transition makes it impractical to make the sarge version of libxft1 installable on etch. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
