Re: Bug#322076: xorg-x11: Dummy packages (3) generated from source package still needed?
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 07:24:12PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> 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.
Sounds a very good point, unfortunately ;)
> BTW is there a still reason for
> ----------
> ametzler@argenau:~$ cat /sid/var/lib/dpkg/info/libxext6.shlibs
> libXext 6 libxext6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
> ----------
> can't the ' | xlibs (>> 4.1.0)'-part be dropped now, that sarge has
> been released?
This is indeed the alternative, AFAICT all dependencies on xlibs should
be replaced by more accurate ones.
Denis
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