Bug#236780: No need to Conflict with xlib6
Package: xlibs
Version: 4.3.0-5
Severity: wishlist
Tags: sid
I mentioned this in #233818 already but I now suspect that the cases of xlib6
and xlib6g may differ in important respects so I am filing a separate report.
WordPerfect 8 works with xlib6, xpm4.7 and libc5. Until release 4.3 of
xfree86 I had these installed and marked "hold" and I had no problem.
Now I have installed xlibs 4.3.0 which Conflicts with xlib6 and forces it
off my system. I don't see the reason for this. xlib6 installs files in
/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/ so there is no pathname collision with anything in
current xfree86 packages. When I remove (but don't purge) xlibs and
install xlib6 then everything including WP8 works fine again.
It may be objected that WP8 is not free software, etc., but I need to keep
the program around so that I can convert old files in WP formats to formats
readable by OOo. So, unless there is some good reason why xlib6 should be
forced off the system, I would like xlibs to refrain from Conflicting with it.
-- Package-specific info:
Keyboard-related contents of XFree86 X server log (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
(==) ServerLayout "Default Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0)
(**) | |-->Monitor "Generic Monitor"
(**) | |-->Device "Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] (laptop/notebook)"
(**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard JDTH"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
(**) XKB: model: "pc102"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us_intl"
(**) XKB: layout: "us_intl"
(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
(**) |-->Input Device "GPM Mouse"
(**) |-->Input Device "USB Mouse"
(WW) The directory "/usr/lib/openoffice/share/fonts/truetype" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic,/usr/local/mathematica/SystemFiles/Fonts/Type1,/usr/local/mathematica/SystemFiles/Fonts/X,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/arialuni,/usr/share/fonts/truetype/Windows,/usr/share/fonts/truetype/code2000"
--
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension LBX
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard JDTH" handled by legacy driver
(**) Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
(**) GPM Mouse: Protocol: "PS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) GPM Mouse: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
XFree86 X server log files on system:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43987 2004-03-08 10:22 /var/log/XFree86.0.log
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24
Locale: LANG=en_IE@euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE@euro
Versions of packages xlibs depends on:
ii libice6 4.3.0-5 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libsm6 4.3.0-5 X Window System Session Management
ii libx11-6 4.3.0-5 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0-5 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft1 4.3.0-5 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 4.3.0-5 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxmu6 4.3.0-5 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxmuu1 4.3.0-5 lightweight X Window System miscel
ii libxp6 4.3.0-5 X Window System printing extension
ii libxpm4 4.3.0-5 X pixmap library
ii libxrandr2 4.3.0-5 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxt6 4.3.0-5 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii libxtrap6 4.3.0-5 X Window System protocol-trapping
ii libxtst6 4.3.0-5 X Window System event recording an
ii xlibs-data 4.3.0-5 X Window System client data
-- no debconf information
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