Bug#356539: Script to fix it while waiting on upstream.

[David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net>]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 09:56:12PM -0400, Dan Merillat wrote:
> 
> Use this rather then doing it manually while we wait for
> 
> * upstream to fix it.
> * upstream to release the fix
> * Debian to package the fixed upstream release.
> 
> I have no idea why this doesn't qualify as a Debian-fixable bug
> rather then an upstream.  If it is a Debian packaging issue,
> in that upstream expects X manpages in manNx, and Debian puts them in 
> manN instead, Debian should fix it..  If you change a path, change 
> references to the path, no?
> 
> If this is broken directly from upstream in that they've dropped the 
> manNx, then this is the kind of trivial fix the distros should catch and 
> fix and send upstream.
> 
> This fixes libxau-dev as well, but it should properly ignore it if it's 
> not installed.  It probably won't format your harddrive, but I won't 
> guarantee that.

I am currently in the process of fixing it, but it requires a lot of
rebuilds and is not so critical as hosing people's systems on upgrade. Calm
down. It'll be fixed with 7.1, which is what I'm working on right now.

 - David Nusinow