On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 09:52:52PM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote: > 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. Right; the packages in unstable that depend on "xserver" today are ldm, lessdisks-xterminal, sdm-terminal. But only as a last alternative, so maybe this isn't really an issue anyway. In stable, login.app is added to this list without any alternatives, which was how I noticed the dropped Provides. And login.app's dep is obviously a bug. So yeah, given how few packages care about this virtual package, seems fine to drop it and close this bug. > Either way, adding it back won't draw any complaints from me. Merely > noting that it was removed deliberately, not accidentally. <nod> understood. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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