Bug#400632: x11-common: should not ship a SUID root binary

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Mon, Feb  4, 2008 at 21:02:01 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:

> The problem is not that /usr/bin/X is suid-root.  The problem is that
> /usr/bin/X is now shipped in a package which is a dependency of *all* of the
> X libraries, so you can no longer have a system with X clients only without
> pulling in an extra suid binary you don't need.
> 
I can't see the reason why the X libraries (Pre-)Depend on x11-common.
AFAICT the Pre-Dependency is needed for packages installing stuff in
/usr/include/X11 and /usr/lib/X11 to ensure that they are proper
directories and not symlinks to /usr/X11R6.  That doesn't apply to
libx11-6 and friends.

Cheers,
Julien