Bug#477550: Bug#477547: please remove this transitional package

["Ondrej Certik" <ondrej@certik.cz>]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 21:33:16 +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote:
>
>  > package: xlibs-data
>  > version: 1:7.3+10
>  > Usertags: etch-transitional-packages
>  >
>  On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 21:34:04 +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote:
>
>  > package: xlibs-static-dev
>  > version: 1:7.3+10
>  > Usertags: etch-transitional-packages
>  >
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > this binary package seems to be a transitional package used to upgrade
>  > from sarge to etch, that can now be safely removed.
>  > If that is so, please fix the source package not to produce this
>  > binary package anymore.
>
>  Unfortunately there are still packages (build-)depending on those.
>  I filed bugs a while ago, you're welcome to fix them.  In the mean time,
>  no, they can't be "safely" removed from the archive.

Thanks for the reply. I made a mistake then, I only did:

$ apt-cache rdepends xlibs-data
xlibs-data
Reverse Depends:
  xkb-data-legacy
  xkb-data-legacy
  xcursor-themes
  xcursor-themes
  xbitmaps
  xbitmaps
  libx11-6

$ apt-cache rdepends xlibs-static-dev
xlibs-static-dev
Reverse Depends:
  x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev
  x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev
  x11proto-xf86misc-dev
  x11proto-xf86misc-dev
  x11proto-xf86dga-dev
  x11proto-xf86dga-dev
  x11proto-xf86bigfont-dev
  x11proto-xf86bigfont-dev
  x11proto-bigreqs-dev
  x11proto-bigreqs-dev
  libxfont-dev


But all those packages only conflict or replace xlibs-data or
xlibs-static-dev.  So now I did:

$ grep-dctrl -F Build-Depends -s Package "xlibs-data"
/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.cz.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_source_Sources
Package: enlightenment
Package: pixmap
Package: xtel
$ grep-dctrl -F Build-Depends -s Package "xlibs-static-dev"
/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.cz.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_source_Sources
Package: enlightenment
Package: gem
Package: gl-117
Package: gvidm
Package: wine

For example for enlightement, you reported this a year ago already:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=419023

with no response at all.

Ok, let's leave this bug open until the above packages are fixed and
then remove it from archive.

Ondrej