Re: RFC: goals for xorg-x11 6.8.2-0pre1v1 upload to experimental
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:13:50PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> As those who follow this list and don't filter out the SVN commit messages
> are likely aware, I've created an SVN repository called "xorg-x11" and have
> started the work of packaging it.
>
> You'll notice some changes already, such as:
> * the entire upstream source tree (tagged XORG-6_8_2) has been imported
> into the repository
> * I'm using features of modern (but still in sarge) versions of dpkg to
> document the reasons for the package's Build-Dependencies.
>
> I have built X.Org X11 6.8.2 from source, checked out from the repository,
> in a clean sid chroot. The packaging infrastructure is still pending.
>
> I'd like to solicit folks' opinions on:
>
> * What we should try to accomplish for the first upload to experimental;
> * What we shouldn't.
Branden, I uploaded xkeyboard-config to experimental some days ago
(binary is xkb-data as you requested). Unfortunately several packages
have a versioned dependency on xlibs, so AFAICT xkb-data can not
Conflicts/Replaces/Provides xlibs. In order to prevent conflicts,
I put XKB files in /etc/X11/xkeyboard-config and users have to install
a dummy xlibs package via equivs, then set a symlink to /etc/X11/xkb.
Do you know how I could avoid this mess?
Denis
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