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Any reason why libmotif3 vanished for Sparc
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| Andreas Tille 2005-08-29, 2:52 am |
| Hi,
I just noticed that libmotif3 vanished for Sparc architecture from the
non-free archive.
* stable (libs): Open Motif - shared libraries [non-free]
2.2.3-1: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips powerpc s390
* testing (libs): Open Motif - shared libraries [non-free]
2.2.3-1: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips powerpc s390
* unstable (libs): Open Motif - shared libraries [non-free]
2.2.3-1.1: alpha arm i386 ia64 mips powerpc
2.2.3-1: amd64 hppa m68k s390
I know that it was there formerly because I once got it without any extra
lines in my sources.list file. Now the Sparc port can be found at
http://ftp.unixdev.net/pub/debian-u...ee/o/openmotif/
but I wonder what might be the reason to drop this single archive from the
non-free mirrors?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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| Andreas Metzler 2005-08-29, 6:01 pm |
| Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:
> I just noticed that libmotif3 vanished for Sparc architecture from the
> non-free archive.
[...]
> I know that it was there formerly because I once got it without any extra
> lines in my sources.list file. Now the Sparc port can be found at
> http://ftp.unixdev.net/pub/debian-u...ee/o/openmotif/
This is a version with security issues.
> but I wonder what might be the reason to drop this single archive from the
> non-free mirrors?
Hello,
Iirc there's a security-related bug in the version in etch and the
missing binary on sparc blocked migration of the fixed package.
libmotif3 is non-free and not-autobuilt, it requires somebody with
access to a sparc machine to build it manually. Sadly this seems to be
made difficult by a FTBFS on sparc, http://bugs.debian.org/323798
cu andreas
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| Andreas Tille 2005-08-30, 2:56 am |
| On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Andreas Metzler wrote:
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> This is a version with security issues.
Thanks for the hint.
> libmotif3 is non-free and not-autobuilt, it requires somebody with
I'm aware of this and I could offer building the package on my Sparc machine,
but ...
> access to a sparc machine to build it manually. Sadly this seems to be
> made difficult by a FTBFS on sparc, http://bugs.debian.org/323798
.... I'm not skilled enough to fix this. :-(
(I put debian-sparc in CC - perhaps this increases the audience.)
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| Petter Reinholdtsen 2005-08-30, 2:56 am |
| [Andreas Tille]
> ... I'm not skilled enough to fix this. :-(
Try using lesstif instead. It is a motif clone. I recommend
installing lesstif2-dev instead of the motif development package, and
try again.
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| Andreas Tille 2005-08-30, 8:15 am |
| On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Try using lesstif instead. It is a motif clone. I recommend
> installing lesstif2-dev instead of the motif development package, and
> try again.
I tried and failed - but thanks for the hint.
And before you ask: I failed to find a reasonable bug report to the
lesstif authors, because the failure was hard to describe and only
reproducable in the quite complex program arb, which is just missing
several controls in the GUI under some circumstances. So it compiles
fine with lesstif but I can't bother our users to find out why they are
not able to manage the GUI.
Kind regards and thanks for the hint anyway
Andreas.
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