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Re: RFS: ITP: crystalcursors -- X11 mouse theme with the crystal



On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:38:36PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:
> Op wo, 17-08-2005 te 21:11 +0200, schreef Bastian Venthur:
> > Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:41:13PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:
> > >> Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > >> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:19:15PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> >> W: crystalcursors: packages-installs-file-to-usr-x11r6
> > >> >> usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/crystalwhiteleft_nonanim/
> > >> >> 
> > >> >> but I guess it's OK -- because these are cursors and they have to be
> > >> >> installed in this directory.
> > >> > My understanding is otherwise:
> > >> > 
> > >>
> > >> I think in this special case this warning can be ignored, since all other
> > >> mousecursors on my system are installed in the very same dir. BTW I've
> > >> seen that other packages [1] which provide cursors have this warning too.
> > > $ ls -l /usr/lib/X11
> > > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 16 Jun  8 22:26 /usr/lib/X11 -> ../X11R6/lib/X11
> > 
> > Ok, I've changed the target to /usr/lib/X11. But now instead of 1 warning
> > per cursor i get 2 errors per cursor:
> > 
> > E: crystalcursors: package-installs-file-to-usr-something-x11
> > usr/lib/X11/icons/crystalwhiteleft/cursors/plus
> > E: crystalcursors: use-of-compat-symlink
> > usr/lib/X11/icons/crystalwhiteleft/cursors/plus
> This is because /usr/lib/X11 is a symlink to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11, so you
> should not install in /usr/lib/X11, but just install
> in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 as you did previously.
Really?  Sorry, then.

File a bug on lintian, too, if you can understand whats happening
(because for the moment I'm lost).

Justin



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