Bug#83069: PROPOSED] bringing X app-defaults policy into the era of XFree86 4

[Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>]

Seconded.

Thanks,

-- 
Raul

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:44:02PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.2.1.2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> This policy revision is long overdue, since the transition away from the
> current policy is actually largely complete already.
> 
> This is probably the most important X policy proposal in quite a while,
> since we have lintian checks that enforce the old obsolete policy.
> 
> --- policy.sgml.orig	Sun Jan 21 14:48:38 2001
> +++ policy.sgml	Sun Jan 21 15:41:14 2001
> @@ -6101,29 +6101,22 @@
>  	
>  	<p>
>  	  <em>Application defaults</em> files must be installed in the
> -	  directory <tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/</tt>.
> -	  <footnote>
> -	    <p>Note: This shall change very shortly.</p>
> -	  </footnote>
> -	  They should not be registered as <em>conffile</em>s or
> -	  otherwise treated as configuration files.  Customization of
> -	  programs' X resources may be supported with the provision of
> -	  a file with the same name as that of the package placed in
> -	  the <tt>/etc/X11/Xresources/</tt> directory, which must
> -	  registered as a <em>conffile</em>.  <em>Important:</em>
> -	  packages that install files into the
> -	  <tt>/etc/X11/Xresources/</tt> directory <em>must</em>
> -	  declare a conflict with <tt>xbase (&lt;&lt;
> -	    3.3.2.3a-2)</tt>; if this is not done it is possible for the
> -	  installing package to destroy a previously-existing
> -	  <tt>/etc/X11/Xresources</tt> <em>file</em> which had been
> -	  customized by the system administrator.
> -	  <footnote>
> -	    <p>Rationale: clarifies the language to properly
> -	      address the package maintainer, not the system
> -	      administrator, as to how to manage
> -	      /etc/X11/Xresources.</p>
> -	  </footnote>
> +	  directory <tt>/etc/X11/app-defaults/</tt> (use of a localized
> +	  subdirectory of <tt>/etc/X11/</tt> as described in the <emph>X
> +	  Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface</emph> manual is also
> +	  permitted).  They must be registered as <em>conffile</em>s or
> +	  handled as configuration files.  For programs that are not linked
> +	  against the X Toolkit (Xt) library, customization of programs' X
> +	  resources may also be supported with the provision of a file with
> +	  the same name as that of the package placed in the
> +	  <tt>/etc/X11/Xresources/</tt> directory, which must registered as
> +	  a <em>conffile</em> or handled as a configuration file.
> +	  <em>Important:</em> packages that install files into the
> +	  <tt>/etc/X11/Xresources/</tt> directory <em>must</em> declare a
> +	  conflict with <tt>xbase (&lt;&lt; 3.3.2.3a-2)</tt>; if this is
> +	  not done it is possible for the installing package to destroy a
> +	  previously-existing <tt>/etc/X11/Xresources</tt> file which had
> +	  been customized by the system administrator.
>  	</p>
>  
>  	
> 
> -- 
> G. Branden Robinson             |
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