On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 02:09:57PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 11:33:08AM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 03:05:04AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > The current xserver-xorg package no longer Provides: the virtual 'xserver' > > > package, which all xserver packages have done since time immemorial (or at > > > least since sarge). As there is no mention of this in the xserver-xorg > > > changelog, I imagine this was removed in error. > > > I removed it. > > Are you going to deign to tell me why? If you are relying on a working X environment, you just need to depend on the set of X libraries you use. If you're relying on a specific server, you need to launch that server. No server that I know of will reliably start and work when invoked without any DDX-specific parameters. Not Xorg, not Xgl, not any of the KDrive-class servers. Okay, Xephyr and Xnest will, but they are not what you want when you depend on the 'xserver' package. Same reason I made xresprobe invoke /usr/bin/Xorg directly, instead of calling through the /etc/X11/X symlink and just hoping that it worked. Although, upon writing this mail, I'd imagine that ?dm Depends: xserver-xorg | xserver, is an entirely valid use case, as they require an X server to be startable, use no DDX-specific parameters, and do not take responsibility for X server configuration. If that's what you had in mind, then yeah, I'm wrong. Either way, adding it back won't draw any complaints from me. Merely noting that it was removed deliberately, not accidentally.
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