Re: Bug#322076: xorg-x11: Dummy packages (3) generated from source package still needed?
Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:10:40AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
>> Package: xorg-x11
>> Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-4
>> Priority: wishlist
>> This source package provides several dummy packages which are present in
>> sarge, etch and sid: xlibs-pic, xlibs-dev and xlibs-dbg.
>> As these are dummy transition-only package (for woody)
> FWIW the xlibs package is in a similar situation, though it is not
> dummy. Would it be possible to move XKB stuff to another package?
> I maintain (though I need to seriously work on it) xkeyboard-config
> in experimental, this package is an alternative to xlibs.
Hello,
xlibs contains more than 300 dpkg-conffiles, and moving them from one
package to another requires lots of manual md5summing in the
package maintainer scripts as dpkg does not handle this at all and
will throw lots of unnecessary configuration-file changed prompts.
That is same problem anybody switching from xfree96 to xorg
experiences with /etc/Xsession, just on a gigantic scale.
BTW is there a still reason for
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ametzler@argenau:~$ cat /sid/var/lib/dpkg/info/libxext6.shlibs
libXext 6 libxext6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
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can't the ' | xlibs (>> 4.1.0)'-part be dropped now, that sarge has
been released?
cu andreas
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