Daniel Stone writes ("Re: Bug#375667: x11-common and xserver-xorg unupgradeable due to mutual deathgrip"):
> Some people have hardcoded /usr/bin/X11/xauth, et al. As I'm reading
> the FHS, it must continue to work.
Just xauth (or a handful of other things) ? We could have a symlink
(managed by the postinst to avoid dpkg accidentally replacing xauth
with a link to itself) for the transition.
Ian.