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Bug#768635: marked as done (big-cursor: Requires a change to /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme)

Your message dated Tue, 11 Aug 2015 20:23:43 +0200
with message-id <20150811182343.GA7310@homura.m-wei.net>
and subject line Re: big-cursor: Requires a change to /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme
has caused the Debian Bug report #768635,
regarding big-cursor: Requires a change to /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme
to be marked as done.

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Package: big-cursor
Version: 3.9
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Installing big-cursor package did not change the default
cursor on two systems I maintain (sid, Ubuntu LTS) where X
is started with startx. 

Big-cursor was not offered as a choice when I ran:

update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme

I resolved the issues by editing
/etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme.

If this approach is suitable, perhaps it could be documented
in README.Debian:

	For some systems it may be necessary to edit
	/etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme as follows:

	[Icon Theme]
	Inherits=big-cursor

Thank you.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages big-cursor depends on:
ii  xfonts-base   1:1.0.3
ii  xfonts-utils  1:7.7+2

big-cursor recommends no packages.

big-cursor suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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tags 768635 wontfix
thanks

According to the previous reason, I would put it a won't fix as
modifying /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme breaks the purpose of debian
alternatives system, which is using symlinks to provide alternatives of
some files. For more information about alternatives, please visit:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives

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