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Bug#399972: marked as done (x11-common: installs breaks if xorg subdir are symlinked)

Your message dated Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:09:08 +0200
with message-id <4854EA44.6060403@ens-lyon.org>
and subject line closing some old wontfix bugs that we don't need to keep open
has caused the Debian Bug report #399972,
regarding x11-common: installs breaks if xorg subdir are symlinked
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: x11-common
Version: 1:7.1.0-7
Severity: important

Hello,

the preinst script of xserver-common contains those lines:
 # symlink -> dir transition                                                   
  for i in include share lib; do                                                
    if [ -L "/usr/${i}/X11" ]; then                                             
      rm /usr/${i}/X11                                                          
    fi                                                                          
  done        

I installed xorg on another partition due to lack of disk space, and 
symlinked /usr/{share,lib,include}/X11 to point to the right place. With 
this approach, the upgrade of x11-common leave the system half broken, 
as f.i. there is no more locale data. Would it be possible to either:
1) put a message BEFORE breaking the symlink
2) leave the option to enable or not changing the symlink to a real dir
3) analysing more thoroughfully the kind of link (what do you want to 
correct exactly) before deciding it has to be changed.

I understand that were are close to an important transition, but please 
at least warn before changing the directories structure.

Thanking you in advance

Pascal Dupuis

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.2
Locale: LANG=fr_BE, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages x11-common depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.8      Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.17       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-15     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

x11-common recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  x11-common/experimental_packages:
  x11-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users: rootonly
  x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value/error:
* x11-common/upgrade_issues:
  x11-common/x11r6_bin_not_empty:
  x11-common/xwrapper/allowed_users: Root Only
  x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value: -10

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
This bug has been marked as "wontfix" for a while, and I don't think it
is worth keeping it open. So as part of cleaning the BTS, I am just
closing it.

Cheers
Brice

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