On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:54:08AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Is anyone building -0pre1v4? If not I've got a build going and can
> upload when it's done. (Tried to install -0pre1v3 last night, but
> xlibs-data is only -0pre1v4.)
I would very much like to see an ARM upload of -0pre1v4.
> Also, I noticed two problem along the way. First, there seems to be a
> circular dependency here. xfree86 needs libxcursor-dev to build. But
> libxcursor1 depends on xlibs. So one needs xlibs-dev 4.2.x installed in
> order to build xcursor, though when xfree86 4.3.0 goes into unstable,
> there will be no xlibs-dev 4.2.x. Long-term, any release of xcursor
> while xfree86 is building (and thus is uninstallable on some arches)
> breaks stuff, so IMO this is a serious bug.
Unless I'm misunderstaning you, this is no different from the
build-dependency loop between tetex-base and xfree86.
(TeTeX depends on Xlib for xdvi, and XFree86 depends on TeTeX to
generate docs.)
> I broke the circular dep manually by forcing libxcursor1 to install
> though xlibs was not configured (wouldn't configure without xlibs-data
> at the same version). But the only sane long-term workaround I can
> think of is to remove the dependency between libxcursor1 and xlibs, and
> just let applications depend on both shlib packages.
I don't understand.
> Second, xlibs-data asks manually if I want to accept new versions of
> *all* of its config files the first time it's installed. I'm not sure
> about what can be done about this, since those files seem to be moving
> from one package to another, but it's a bit annoying...
xfree86 (4.3.0-0pre1v5) experimental; urgency=low
[...]
* Update xlibs and xlibs-data's package descriptions to clarify that X
Keyboard Extension (XKB) data is in xlibs, but other
architecture-independent data is in xlibs-data. The XKB data has not
moved because dpkg supports no mechanism for migrating conffiles between
packages, and it is unacceptable for people to be spuriously shown dpkg's
changed-conffile prompt dozens of times when upgrading from versions of
xlibs prior to 4.3.0.
- debian/control
-0pre1v5 isn't released yet, but the above change has already been made.
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