Re: Bug#151613: xauth

[Josip Rodin <joy@debbugs.entuzijast.net>]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:47:07AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> > Maybe xbase-clients in general could be further split to separate things
> > that don't need all this font and OpenGL stuff. But xauth should be the
> > first to go.
> 
> It's being discussed these days and might be done in the "near" future.
> xauth is planned to be in its own package.
> See
> http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20070505.002151.a200d96f.en.html
> and the current split plan at
> http://users.tkk.fi/~tjaalton/xbase-clients-split.txt

Is there any particular reason why this isn't Cc:ed to the BTS? :)

One thing that I would add is that it's not clear whether this would be a
source+binary split, or just binary. I went looking upstream, and noticed
that these programs are each in their own subtree under
git.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/ (list visible at http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/ )
xbase-clients currently appears to be a semi-random subset of those.

Given that these days both the drivers and the libraries are split, I think
that we would actually do the world a service if we stopped scheming how to
bump several programs into a smaller number of packages, and just Xu'ed the
whole thing. Pseudo-packages can exist to bump associated binary packages
together for the users' benefit, but there's no real reason to keep anything
else together.

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