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:
> > 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.
>
> 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.
Check out the xlibs and xkeyboard-config packages from Ubuntu for how
this has been done.
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