Bug#233768: xlibs: Too many extraneous depends
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El Jueves, 26 de Febrero de 2004 19:30, Branden Robinson escribió:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:00:14AM +0100, David Martínez Moreno wrote:
> > Don't worry :-)
> >
> > xlibs now has become a transient package (i.e., a fake package that is
> > intended to make the transition to the new packages as smooth as
> > possible).
>
> Not quite true. It is transitional, but it is not "fake", and it *does*
> contain important files.
I *knew* that I should not use that word. :-) I intentionally removed the
last sentence from the package description:
This package also contains configuration data used by the X Keyboard Extension
(XKB). Other architecture-independent data used by X libraries can be found
in the xlibs-data package.
I simply wanted to simplify a little the issue for Erik. Sorry if the
over-simplification hide the gory details, but it is what it is intended for.
> > Eventually, if you run deborphan, you should be able to remove xlibs and
> > whatever other graphical libraries dependencies you have, as the new
> > xlibs design is far more modular than 4.2.1 one.
> >
> > What I mean is that you are seeing only what xlibs contained in 4.2.1
> > but only now is splitted in.
>
> xlibs will have to live on dpkg is capable of migrating conffiles from
> one package to another. Some users of earlier experimental 4.3.0
> packages saw what happens when the XKB data migrates; they 60 or 70
> spurius "changed-conffile" prompts.
I definitely do not like this...although you were definitely used to enter
your GPG passphrase a couple of times every time you release, eh? ;-)
> In my opinion, it is not reasonable by any stretch of the imagination to
> subject our users to this behavior.
I absolutely agree.
> When dpkg is fixed, the XKB data can move to xlibs-data, and xlibs-data
> can Pre-Depend (I think) on dpkg (>= whatever-version-fixed-it).
Who is actually maintaining dpkg?
No, rephrase that: Is anyone actively maintaining dpkg?
Last time doogie seemed too busy.
Regards,
Ender.
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