Bug#490819: release.debian.org: section 5(m) of lenny RC policy out of date

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 16:03:44 +0100, Steve Langasek wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 03:31:13PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > Package: release.debian.org
> 
> > Quoting from http://release.debian.org/lenny/rc_policy.txt:
> 
> > 5. General
> > [...]
> >   (m) X support
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> >         Packages must not install files in to /usr/{bin,include,lib}/X11,
> >         however, they should reference the files by these names in preference
> >         to the corresponding /usr/X11R6/ directories.
> 
> > This paragraph should be removed, I think (it was already wrong for etch).
> > Nowadays, packages must not install files in to /usr/X11R6, and if they
> > install files in /usr/{include,lib}/X11 they must pre-depend on
> > x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0).
> 
> I think the pre-depends is also unnecessary for lenny since this version of
> x11-common was in etch and skipping releases is not supported, so we should
> not need to encourage maintainers to add this field anywhere that it isn't
> already present.
> 
This paragraph is still present at
http://release.debian.org/squeeze/rc_policy.txt
Can somebody please remove it?

Cheers,
Julien