Bug#375667: x11-common and xserver-xorg unupgradeable due to mutual deathgrip

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#375667: x11-common and xserver-xorg unupgradeable due to mutual deathgrip"):
> 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.

I mean,
 -rwxr-xr-x /usr/bin/xauth
 drwxr-xr-x /usr/bin/X11
 lrwxrwxrwx /usr/bin/X11/xauth -> ../xauth   (done by postinst)

Ian.