openmotif to be removed from Fedora October 2, 2006
Hans de Goede
j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Thu Aug 31 16:25:21 UTC 2006
Rex Dieter wrote:
> -------------------
> For reference, a copy of this posting as well as any updates on this
> topic are available at
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RexDieter/openmotif
> -------------------
>
> Per discussion on the Fedora Advisory Board mailing list, openmotif
> currently does not meet Fedora's licensing requirements. The openmotif
> developers have been contacted, but it appears openmotif's licensing
> will not be changing soon.
>
> The hard decision has been made that openmotif will be removed from
> Fedora and the current plan is to make this happen by October 2, 2006,
> the final development freeze for Fedora Core 6.
>
> Currently, the following packages in Core and Extras contain runtime or
> build time dependencies on openmotif:
> * cmucl
> * ddd
> * geomview
> * gpsd
> * grace
> * Inventor
> * mesa-libGLw
> * nedit
> * xlockmore
> * xpdf
>
> Maintainers need to update their packages to use another motif
> implementation, lesstif (in Extras). It is not 100% ABI-compatible (and
> provides a different shared library soname), but all that should be
> required for most motif-dependent applications is changing
>
> BuildRequires: openmotif-devel
> to
> BuildRequires: lesstif-devel
>
> and rebuilding/recompiling.
>
since lesstif is in extras does this mean that all those packages will
be moving to extras?
Regards,
Hans
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