Bug#362524: Have the conflicting packages' maintainers been notified?

[David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net>]

On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 11:40:38AM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Today, "apt-get dselect-upgrade" wants to remove several packages,
> e.g. "xfs", presumably due to new conflicts by xorg.
> 
> I checked for a bug report on "xfs" and found none.  Have all the
> maintainers of newly-uninstallable packages been notified
> about this change?
> 
> Or should I file bug reports?  If so, what is the fix: is a new
> revision sufficient or does some action need to be taken?

Not yet, the realization that it was a necessity kind of came on too fast
for me. Actually, binNMU's for all the packages should, in theory, be
sufficient for a fix. We'll be installing a compatibility symlink in place
of /usr/X11R6/bin (to /usr/bin) and packages should be able to install
cleanly. We just need to make sure they do so after x11-common sets that
symlink up.

 - David Nusinow