On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:08:18AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > So lyx is indeed out of date on powerpc, probably because it's in the > > contrib section and the autobuilders don't always keep religiously up to > > date with that. > > As a maintainer of several contrib packages that depend on XForms, I can > say that autobuilders _don't_ process contrib at all. I've had to ask > admins to temporarily install libforms-dev so that I could build the > packages on non-i386 arches; some of them don't want to. I've had to file > many bugs against ftp.debian.org to get old versions of non-i386 binary > packages deleted from the archive to let packages migrate to testing. It a > big pain. Maintaining a contrib package is more work than maintaining a > non-free one! I don't recommend it. > > Hopefully, this will end soon. XForms is _supposed_ to become free very > soon. Then lyx will be in main too, and powerpc will be uptodate.
Thank God. I have one XForms-dependent package too (not an important one by any stretch of the imagination, though), and had to do the same thing for various architectures. I was actually thinking about orphaning it in favour of somebody who had time to convert it to FLTK. Do you think it'll be free before optional packages freeze for woody? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
