Re: Release

[Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>]

"Larry 'Daffy' Daffner" <vizzie@airmail.net> writes:

> It's not an ideal solution, but it would work as a quick fix.

Actually, I just sent Bruce this email which is a much simpler solution:

Just have a no-content package (ie - control file only) like this:

Package: xdependency
Version: 1.0
Depends: xlib6
Provides: xlib, xlibraries, xbaseR6
Description: Provide backwards compatible X dependencies
 Some X programs were depending on the wrong packages.  This tiny
 package provides backward compatible virtual packages so those
 programs won't be dinstalled when X 3.2 is installed.
 .
 After those programs are fixed, this package can be removed.

It would take 5 minutes to build this, and probably considerably
longer to recompile and repackage the X stuff.  I think this is a much
cleaner solution.


Guy


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