On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:54:08AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Is anyone building -0pre1v4? If not I've got a build going and can > upload when it's done. (Tried to install -0pre1v3 last night, but > xlibs-data is only -0pre1v4.) I would very much like to see an ARM upload of -0pre1v4. > Also, I noticed two problem along the way. First, there seems to be a > circular dependency here. xfree86 needs libxcursor-dev to build. But > libxcursor1 depends on xlibs. So one needs xlibs-dev 4.2.x installed in > order to build xcursor, though when xfree86 4.3.0 goes into unstable, > there will be no xlibs-dev 4.2.x. Long-term, any release of xcursor > while xfree86 is building (and thus is uninstallable on some arches) > breaks stuff, so IMO this is a serious bug. Unless I'm misunderstaning you, this is no different from the build-dependency loop between tetex-base and xfree86. (TeTeX depends on Xlib for xdvi, and XFree86 depends on TeTeX to generate docs.) > I broke the circular dep manually by forcing libxcursor1 to install > though xlibs was not configured (wouldn't configure without xlibs-data > at the same version). But the only sane long-term workaround I can > think of is to remove the dependency between libxcursor1 and xlibs, and > just let applications depend on both shlib packages. I don't understand. > Second, xlibs-data asks manually if I want to accept new versions of > *all* of its config files the first time it's installed. I'm not sure > about what can be done about this, since those files seem to be moving > from one package to another, but it's a bit annoying... xfree86 (4.3.0-0pre1v5) experimental; urgency=low [...] * Update xlibs and xlibs-data's package descriptions to clarify that X Keyboard Extension (XKB) data is in xlibs, but other architecture-independent data is in xlibs-data. The XKB data has not moved because dpkg supports no mechanism for migrating conffiles between packages, and it is unacceptable for people to be spuriously shown dpkg's changed-conffile prompt dozens of times when upgrading from versions of xlibs prior to 4.3.0. - debian/control -0pre1v5 isn't released yet, but the above change has already been made. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Music is the brandy of the damned. branden@debian.org | -- George Bernard Shaw http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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