> Has anyone considered writing a svgalib replacement that simply
> translates svgalib calls into X Windows calls? This would allow
> those of us with cards that are unsupported under svgalib to still
> use svgalib programs, though admittedly at a speed penalty.
I haven't yet thought of that :-),
> Better method: Remove the version from svgalib1g shlibs (as the
> other libc6 libraries have done). The version would be needed again
> if a new upstream release of svgalib with an incompatible library
> arrives, as this seems far from happening this would be a perfect
> solution for svgalib, IM
Has anyone considered writing a svgalib replacement that
simply translates svgalib calls into X Windows calls? This would
allow those of us with cards that are unsupported under svgalib to
still use svgalib programs, though admittedly at a speed penalty.
(My S3 card doesn't work a
> On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
>
> > > So, what method do you prefer? Or do you have better ideas? How hard
> > > would it be to implement versioned Provides: in dpkg? Or are there
> > > other reasons not to implement it? Is solution 2) too kludgy?
> > I strongly prefer method 1. I
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
> > So, what method do you prefer? Or do you have better ideas? How hard
> > would it be to implement versioned Provides: in dpkg? Or are there
> > other reasons not to implement it? Is solution 2) too kludgy?
> I strongly prefer method 1. I really think
> > dpkg's current dependency mechanism doesn't allow it to be a
> > substitute for svgalib, because that is a shared lib and so all
> > dependencies on it are versioned dependencies (coming from the .shlibs
> > file).
>
> Well, more to the point: when package foo "Depends" on a particular versio
>
> Now that svgalib seems orphaned, allow me to come up with this topic
> again... But first a brief summary of the history and the problems:
Well, nearly orphaned. I finally got an answer from "Andy Mortimer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who currently is the one interested in
being the maintainer. I di
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