Bug#413620: xkb-data: Description falsely claims to conflict with & replace xlibs
Package: xkb-data
Version: 0.9-4
Severity: minor
(Related in some way to #410903.)
Excerpt of xkb-data Description field:
This package comes from xkeyboard-config, and thus conflicts with
and replaces the xlibs package which is part of the XFree86 server.
I read this as meaning that the xkb-data binary package has
Conflicts and Replaces fields that refer to xlibs, whereas in fact
xkb-data has neither a Conflicts nor a Replaces field.
The relationship between the xkb-data and xlibs packages isn't
immediately clear to me: e.g. it isn't obvious to me whether xlibs'
files are being consulted if xorg and xkb-data are installed, and hence
whether it makes any difference if xlibs is still installed or removed.
If the xlibs package is entirely ignored when xorg and xkb-data are
installed, then I suppose xlibs' Description should note this.
pjrm.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
-- no debconf information
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