Bug#522217: debian-policy: Drop requirement to pre-depend on x11-common

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:52:25AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > I don't know whether to remove just this part, or everything relating to
> > X11R6.  Opinions?
> 
> Let's leave the explicit prohibition on X11R6 for at least one more
> release.  imake used to be really common and one still occasionally runs
> into software that expects this sort of layout.  I think it doesn't hurt
> matters to leave it for a bit longer.

I agree: x11-common still includes /usr/X11R6/bin. We should wait until
/usr/X11R6 is completly removed from Debian before removing it from policy,
if only to says that /usr/X11R6 must not be used.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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