On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:25:10AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > doc/xbase-clients/examples/Xmodmap, and the Xsession manual page describes how > > to write a replacement for /etc/X11/Xsession.d/40xfree86-common_xmodmap. Of > > course, if you're upgrading, you can just move the -old versions of these files > > back into place. Be sure to give them different names, or change their contents > > (say, by adding a comment), so that they aren't moved again on the next upgrade > > of XFree86. > > Why give these different names? dpkg passes the previous version to > maintainer scripts, so you can check what is being upgraded from. Because they're *deprecated*. I don't want to just stop shipping them, I want to get the existing ones *OUT* of the way when they're not being used, hence the check. Keep in mind, the stock Xmodmap file contains nothing but comments, so running xmodmap at all is a no-op in the system case. -- G. Branden Robinson | I suspect Linus wrote that in a Debian GNU/Linux | complicated way only to be able to branden@debian.org | have that comment in there. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Lars Wirzenius
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