Re: C++ Transition Patches
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 06:59:56PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> xfonts-base lost an encoding:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large/jisx0208.1983-0.enc.gz
> xlibs lost:
> /etc/X11/xkb/geometry/omnibook
> /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/ru_yawerty
>
> I don't know what to make of those changes; they're presumably upstream
> changes and not to be worried about?
Yeah, they are. I checked all those out before.
> The i830 and ffb DRI modules vanished, while the i915 and sis modules
> appeared. This is probably due to upstream, but I'm sure this ought to
> be documented somewhere, so as not to totally confuse people (if any)
> using the vanished modules. Probably in NEWS.
Ok, I've added a small item about them to the NEWS file.
> xlibs-static-dev acquired:
> /usr/X11R6/include/X11/XprintAppUtil/xpapputil.h
> /usr/X11R6/include/X11/XprintUtil/xprintutil.h
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXprintAppUtil.a
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXprintUtil.a
>
> xlibs-static-pic acquired:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXprintAppUtil_pic.a
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXprintUtil_pic.a
>
> Is this right? Are we deliberately suppling X.org's version of
> libXprint in this form? If so, it should be listed in the descriptions
> of the packages, and it isn't.
Well, the latter is not stable. Not certain about the former, but I'm
willing to leave it for now. I've added both libXprintAppUtil and
libXprintUtil to the xlibs-static-dev package description.
> OK, that's the last nitpick. I wouldn't hold up the release to unstable
> for most of them, but they should be looked at before the next release.
>
> I worry about the masses of dropped dependencies on
> xfree86-common/x11-common though. It doesn't look correct to me, but
> perhaps /etc/init.d/x{free86|11}-common and /etc/X11/Xsession.d really
> aren't needed by (for instance) libice6.
Since these depend on libx11, and libx11 depends on x11-common, won't the
package get pulled in anyway?
- David Nusinow
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