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Re: xserver-xorg-driver-synaptics [was: Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5]



On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 07:16:38PM +0200, Michel D?ʘnzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 19:12 +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 05:58:51PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > Dear Debian developers,
> > > 
> > > Here the list of packages involved in circular dependencies listed by
> > > maintainers. 
> > ...
> > > Mattia Dongili <malattia@debian.org>
> > > 	xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
> 
> Where was this posted? Didn't see it.

debian-devel:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/07/msg00776.html

> > As far as I can see x-x-i-kbd is ok, so based on that package I'd
> > add:
> > 
> > 	Replaces: xserver-xorg (<< 6.8.2-35)
> > 	Provides: xserver-xorg-input
> > 
> > and remove the xserver-xorg-core dependency, correct?
> 
> How will xserver-xorg-input-synaptics work without xserver-xorg-core?

yeah, of course this is why the dependency is there :)
But what if xserver-xorg-core already depends on input drivers?
Also, the same can be said of xserver-xorg-input-kbd which does not
depend on it.

-- 
mattia
:wq!



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