Bug#172550: please split at least xft1 out of xlibs-dev (needed for libxft2-dev)
Package: xlibs-dev
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 13:15, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 01:44:31AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > reopen 170559 walters@debian.org
> > thanks
> >
> > Branden, I've changed my mind; since I have another package (fontilus)
> > which requires fontconfig/xft2, I'd like to go ahead and upload these
> > packages to Debian, if you have no objections. Let me know if you do.
> >
> > It would still be great if you could split xlibs-dev, though.
>
> Please file a wishlist bug against the xlibs package. The debian-x list
> will see this. I'd like to get a discussion rolling about just how much
> we should split up xlibs. One package per shlib, plus a package for the
> arch-indep data? Something else?
Well, it's up to you, really. If you split out just xft1, that would
work for me. However, as you said on IRC, if you're going to split it,
you might as well split it all the way. That way if anything else comes
along later it will be less of a pain.
You could still make xlibs-dev a metapackage which depends on all the
others, or something.
> Feel free to quote this mail when filing your bug.
>
> To satisfy you, though, all I need to do is split out libXft1, right?
Yes, I think that's all I need for right now.
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