[Bug 203274] Review Request: lesstif - OSF/Motif(R) library clone

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Summary: Review Request: lesstif - OSF/Motif(R) library clone


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203274





------- Additional Comments From pertusus at free.fr  2006-08-20 06:52 EST -------
lesstif is never abi compatible with openmotif. The soname
provided for the libraries is different than the one of the
current openmotif, and corresponds with earlier openmotif releases
(lesstif being abi incompatible with the openmotif library providing
those sonames). I don't know if it is correct or not nor what should 
be done.

I couldn't get the tests to work, since some bitmaps are missing,
which are in 
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/app/bitmap-1.0.2.tar.bz2
but don't seem to be in fedora extras or core (I reported that on
fedora-devel-list). I'll try to have the tests built, but I think it 
isn't that important.

I don't know if I did the right things with the 
obsolete/provides/conflicts. It is not obvious that lesstif should
obsolete openmotif, maybe only conflict. But in that case the 
buildrequires should be changed in all the packages depending on 
openmotif, and openmotif-devel will not be updated to lesstif-devel
on upgrades.

lesstif-devel really conflicts with openmotif-devel (same header and 
library names). And I think we should really avoid having openmotif
and lesstif libraries installed along since as I said above they are binary 
incompatible.

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