[arch-general] Why was wv2 dropped from extra? wv does _not_ provide the wv2 headers

David C. Rankin drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Mon Jul 23 00:47:43 EDT 2012


Guys,

  Why was wv2 dropped from extra? Nothing else provides the headers:

wv2 /usr/include/wv2/associatedstrings.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/convert.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/dllmagic.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/fields.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/fonts.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/functor.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/functordata.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/global.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/handlers.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/lists.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/olestorage.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/olestream.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/paragraphproperties.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/parser.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/parserfactory.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/sharedptr.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/styles.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/textconverter.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/ustring.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/utilities.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/word95_generated.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/word97_generated.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/word_helper.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/wv2version.h
wv2 /usr/include/wv2/wvlog.h

  It still builds fine (one glib fix to olestream.h - filed upstream). I was
surprised when I went to install dependencies in a new chroot only to find that
install failed due to no wv2. Can you guys put it back in extra?

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.



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