Bug#257023: xlibs: xkbd-data not installed by default, should not be part of a dummy/meta package
On 2004-07-09 Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:36:48PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > Package: xlibs
> > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Hello,
> > I've just made a fresh sarge installation (without tasksel) and ended up
> > without xkbd data because xlibs is not depended on by any package
> > (including x-window-system-core).
> I'm sorry, but this is simply false. Five packages in xfree86 depend on
> xlibs-data.
[5 examples for packages depending on /xlibs-data/ ]
Please reread. I was not talking about xlibs-data but about *xlibs*.
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downhill:~# apt-get -s remove xlibs
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
acroread asclock auctex doomlegacy-x11 efax-gtk emacs21 eterm feh fsviewer
fsviewer-icons gcvs gdk-imlib1 geg gettext-el gtk-engines-raleigh gtkfontsel
gv html2ps imagemagick imlib-progs imlib1 krecord libast2 libdockapp-dev
libdockapp1 libgd-gd1-perl libgd-text-perl libgdk-pixbuf-dev libgdk-pixbuf2
libgtk-imlib-perl libmagick++5.5.7 libmagick5.5.7 libplot2 libpstoedit0
libwmf0.2-7 lincity mixer.app mtr perlmagick preview-latex pstoedit qiv
quintuple-agent realplayer rxvt slrnface ssh-askpass t1lib1 tk8.3 tk8.4
tkcvs tkdiff tkinfo tvtime w3m-img wmmount wv xaw3dg xcolors xemacs21
xemacs21-bin xemacs21-nomule xemacs21-support xemacs21-supportel xfig xlibs
xmms-wmdiscotux
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As you can see these are simply packages that have not been rebuilt
since xlibs was split and therefore _only_ depend on xlibs.
cu andreas
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