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Bug#383215: x11-common: xephem package has stuff in /usr/X11R6/bin/, add conflicts?



Package: x11-common
Version: 1:7.0.23
Priority: wishlist

The 'xephem' package from oldstable (and probably others) installed stuff
at /usr/X11R6/bin/ and, since it is not present in sarge (or etch) it will
break upgrade installations from users. Actually, as I described in #362996
such an upgrade is difficult to recover from (if you are a novice user and
launching the upgrade with an X display).

Since the wiki asks people to submit bugs to packages that have not
transitioned I'm doing so with this package (the only one I had installed
which had not transitioned yet).  I don't know if the idea is to add all
these possible packages into dependencies to x11-common but, if so, it would
be great if the X team would 

a) extract a list of all packages in stable / old-stable which installed
stuff in /usr/X11R6/bin/
b) determine which of those packages still have stuff there
c) add those packages to the list of dependencies in x11-common

If not, it would be great if, once polished, the information at
http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg69To7 was rewritten to be used as a section on the
future release notes (sarge->etch) and submitted as a followup to #362996.

Thanks

Javier

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