[FFe] Transition from lesstif2 to Motif in Saucy

[Graham Inggs]

I'm requesting a feature freeze exception to transition tcm, gridengine and mgdiff from lesstif2-dev to libmotif-dev.

This is part of the lesstif2motif transition in Debian [1].

These three packages require minor modifications before they will build with libmotif-dev.
Once these packages have transitioned, the then remaining 16 packages depending on lesstif2-dev only require a single build-dep change, which can be avoided if libmotif-dev provided lesstif2-dev.

Link to transition tracker [2].

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/lesstif2motifTransition
[2] http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/transitions/motif.html

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

You have changes ready and tested for all three?

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

Yes, I will attach them to this bug now.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Ack. Approved.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gridengine - 6.2u5-7.1ubuntu2

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gridengine (6.2u5-7.1ubuntu2) saucy; urgency=low

  * Rebuild with libmotif-dev instead of lesstif2-dev. (LP: #1222747)
  * Add build-depends on libxft-dev, libxp-dev.
  * Specify freetype2 include directory.
 -- Graham Inggs <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:33:12 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mgdiff - 1.0-29ubuntu1

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mgdiff (1.0-29ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  * Rebuild with libmotif-dev instead of lesstif2-dev. (LP: #1222747)
  * Add build-depends on libxt-dev, libxext-dev.
 -- Graham Inggs <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Sep 2013 12:40:28 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tcm - 2.20+TSQD-4.3ubuntu1

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tcm (2.20+TSQD-4.3ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  * Rebuild with libmotif-dev instead of lesstif2-dev. (LP: #1222747)
  * Add build-depends on libxt-dev.
 -- Graham Inggs <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Sep 2013 12:14:35 +0200

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Unsubscribing sponsors, nothing to do for us here.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

Now that tcm, gridenginge and mgdiff have been updated, and a dependency issue between ncbi-tools6 and njplot (LP: #1222965) has been resolved, the remaining packages depending on lesstif2 can be transitioned by a single build-dep change, or a rebuild with libmotif-dev providing lesstif2-dev.

'reverse-depends -b lesstif2-dev -r saucy' lists the following 17 packages:

Reverse-Build-Depends
=====================
* ctn
* elk
* freesci
* glw
* grass
* plan
* sqsh
* twclock
* twpsk
* via
* viewmol
* whitedune
* xastir
* xawtv
* xball
* xmpi
* xshisen

Three of those; ctn, freesci and xshisen do not actually build Motif binaries and should not require a rebuild.

What else needs to be done in order to completely transition from lesstif to motif?

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

How many of these did you test build already?

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

I've built all of them in my Motif PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~ginggs/+archive/motif

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Go ahead. I changed my mind and think it's better to change each package.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

Last night several of the packages got NMUs in Debian so these can simply be sync'd after 7 days when they land in unstable.

@Scott: Can you give me a date by when you want the remaining changes done in Ubuntu?
I'll hold off creating the Ubuntu tasks until then.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Why don't you do the ones that weren't NMUed first and we'll see how close they are then.

[Jackson Doak (noskcaj)]

It might be worth targeting this at 14.04. It would be a lot easier if we didn't have to support lesstif2

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

@ubuntu-sponsors: please upload the last five packages for the transition, attached to comments #18 - #22.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package glw - 8.0.0-1ubuntu1

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glw (8.0.0-1ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  * Rebuild with libmotif-dev instead of lesstif2-dev. (LP: #1222747)
 -- Graham Inggs <email address hidden> Sun, 22 Sep 2013 19:08:52 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xshisen - 1:1.51-4ubuntu1

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xshisen (1:1.51-4ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  * Rebuild with libmotif-dev instead of lesstif2-dev. (LP: #1222747)
 -- Graham Inggs <email address hidden> Sun, 22 Sep 2013 19:10:15 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package sqsh - 2.1.7-2ubuntu1

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sqsh (2.1.7-2ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  * Rebuild with libmotif-dev instead of lesstif2-dev. (LP: #1222747)
 -- Graham Inggs <email address hidden> Sun, 22 Sep 2013 19:09:14 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ctn - 3.0.6-13ubuntu1

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ctn (3.0.6-13ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  * Rebuild with libmotif-dev instead of lesstif2-dev. (LP: #1222747)
 -- Graham Inggs <email address hidden> Sun, 22 Sep 2013 19:12:18 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package freesci - 0.6.4-7ubuntu1

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freesci (0.6.4-7ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  * Rebuild with libmotif-dev instead of lesstif2-dev. (LP: #1222747)
 -- Graham Inggs <email address hidden> Sun, 22 Sep 2013 19:12:43 +0200

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

@ubuntu-archive: please blacklist and remove lesstif2 from the archive.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

There are still packages in the archive that depend on lesstif2, I'm not going to remove it until all the rdeps have fully transitioned.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Also there's no need to blacklist it.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

@ Adam
Looks like it's ready to go, no?

$ reverse-depends -b src:lesstif2
Reverse-Build-Depends
=====================
* grass (for lesstif2-dev) => alternate depends "libmotif-dev | lesstif2-dev"

$ reverse-depends src:lesstif2
No reverse dependencies found

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

If it is worth anything, I, as one of the lesstif2 maintainers in Debian, think it would be nice if lesstif2 would be removed. It has lasted too long already... Soon we will have it gone from Debian as well.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Removing packages from saucy:
 lesstif2 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy
  lesstif-bin 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy amd64
  lesstif-bin 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy armhf
  lesstif-bin 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy i386
  lesstif-bin 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy powerpc
  lesstif-doc 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy amd64
  lesstif-doc 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy arm64
  lesstif-doc 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy armhf
  lesstif-doc 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy i386
  lesstif-doc 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy powerpc
  lesstif2 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy amd64
  lesstif2 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy armhf
  lesstif2 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy i386
  lesstif2 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy powerpc
  lesstif2-dbg 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy amd64
  lesstif2-dbg 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy armhf
  lesstif2-dbg 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy i386
  lesstif2-dbg 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy powerpc
  lesstif2-dev 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy amd64
  lesstif2-dev 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy armhf
  lesstif2-dev 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy i386
  lesstif2-dev 1:0.95.2-1.1 in saucy powerpc
Comment: Obsolete, see bug #1222747
Remove [y|N]? y
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[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

The requested package removal was done, unsubscribing ubuntu-archive.