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Bug#362996: marked as done (Release Notes should document possible issues with X transition)

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Package: release-notes
Severity: important

With the release of modular Xorg 7.0 packages, some structural changes 
have been made that may hit users during upgrade and thus should be 
documented in the Release Notes.

The most important issue is that /usr/X11R6/bin has been dropped and only 
remains as a symlink to /usr/bin. This means it has to be empty at the 
time of the upgrade.
The new packages conflict with most packages that used /usr/X11R6/bin, but 
maybe not all have been caught. The RN should document how users can 
prepare for the upgrade and how they can work their way out of trouble if 
a conflict should arise.

A potential other issue is that paths for fonts and modules have changed 
and thus changes in the X configuration file may be needed. Whether this 
really is an issue depends on how well conversion of old X11 config files 
is supported at the time of the release.

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* Andreas Barth (aba@not.so.argh.org) [061114 14:35]:
> > A potential other issue is that paths for fonts and modules have changed 
> > and thus changes in the X configuration file may be needed. Whether this 
> > really is an issue depends on how well conversion of old X11 config files 
> > is supported at the time of the release.
> 
> Is that still the case? If so, some text from the X-team would be
> welcome.

17:17 < aba> jcristau: #362996
17:22 < jcristau> I think the xserver-xorg maintainer script take care of
updating the paths when transitioning old XF86Config to xorg.conf
17:24 < aba> ok, so we just consider that irrelevant (except to have an hint to
the wiki entry about the transition, which we have anyways)
17:30 < jcristau> I think so, yes

So, this is done as well. Thanks.


Cheers,
Andi
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  http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/

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