Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r988 - trunk/debian
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 07:46:36PM -0500, X Strike Force SVN Repository Admin wrote:
> Log:
> * Continue xlibs package removal for the release team
> + Move all the stuff from xlibs to xlibs-data
> + Make xlibs-data Architecture: any rather than all
> + Re-word the changelog. It's not a metapackage but a transitional
> package
Why has xlibs been merged into xlibs-data? In X.org, there are
currently 2 XKB packages, xkbdata and xkeyboard-config, the
latter will replace the former in the future. This transition
will be harder with this merge.
Please note also that some packages depend on XKB data. For instance,
Anton Zinoviev wrote a nice program to use XKB layouts to replace
console layouts. Of course, this program could be useful without X.
If XKB data are shipped in xlibs-data, he will provide his own copy
of XKB files in his package to not depend on a large package, which
is not optimal.
Denis
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