Re: Please put xlibs back (was Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r1481 - branches/modular/debian/xorg/debian)
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:52:05PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:45:35PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:28:31PM -0500, X Strike Force SVN Repository Admin wrote:
> > > Author: dnusinow
> > > Date: 2006-03-20 21:28:29 -0500 (Mon, 20 Mar 2006)
> > > New Revision: 1481
> > >
> > > Modified:
> > > branches/modular/debian/xorg/debian/changelog
> > > branches/modular/debian/xorg/debian/control
> > > Log:
> > > * At the urgent request of the release and ftp teams, xlibs must die.
> >
> > Can this please be reconsidered? AFAICT we need it to purge conffiles
> > from /etc/X11/xkb.
>
> Could we just have xkb-data(-legacy) purge them instead?
No, our policy states that a package cannot touch conffiles of another
package.
> We can have them conflict the xlibs as well. Is there really a need to
> have an empty xlibs package just so we can use its postinst to purge
> the conffiles?
IMO, yes.
Denis
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