Re: xserver-xorg-video-all vs. -1.0 distinction breaks on upgrades to -2
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 11:58:25PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > The Lintian laboratory on l.d.o can't find me any other packages' postinsts
> > referencing shared/default-x-server. And xserver-xfree86 was actually
> > a transitional package in etch already. So I have no idea why this whole
> > complication exists in there.
>
> Hysterical raisins. It should be removed at some point; patches
> welcome, although not for lenny.
Well, it's severely impairing my upgrade *to* lenny, so I wager it's
an issue for lenny :)
Are there any external packages known to provide the symlink? ISTR some
external X server software, but I don't know if it has deb packages.
If not, is there any reason why this couldn't be a symlink shipped by
xserver-xorg-core, or an ln -s invocation in its postinst? IIRC we stopped
supporting 'jumping' upgrades (e.g. sarge->lenny) so we don't really care
if we break that old xserver-xfree86.
My point being - in that case, the patches are pretty simple.
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