-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El Jueves, 26 de Febrero de 2004 19:30, Branden Robinson escribió: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:00:14AM +0100, David Martínez Moreno wrote: > > Don't worry :-) > > > > xlibs now has become a transient package (i.e., a fake package that is > > intended to make the transition to the new packages as smooth as > > possible). > > Not quite true. It is transitional, but it is not "fake", and it *does* > contain important files.
I *knew* that I should not use that word. :-) I intentionally removed the last sentence from the package description: This package also contains configuration data used by the X Keyboard Extension (XKB). Other architecture-independent data used by X libraries can be found in the xlibs-data package. I simply wanted to simplify a little the issue for Erik. Sorry if the over-simplification hide the gory details, but it is what it is intended for. > > Eventually, if you run deborphan, you should be able to remove xlibs and > > whatever other graphical libraries dependencies you have, as the new > > xlibs design is far more modular than 4.2.1 one. > > > > What I mean is that you are seeing only what xlibs contained in 4.2.1 > > but only now is splitted in. > > xlibs will have to live on dpkg is capable of migrating conffiles from > one package to another. Some users of earlier experimental 4.3.0 > packages saw what happens when the XKB data migrates; they 60 or 70 > spurius "changed-conffile" prompts. I definitely do not like this...although you were definitely used to enter your GPG passphrase a couple of times every time you release, eh? ;-) > In my opinion, it is not reasonable by any stretch of the imagination to > subject our users to this behavior. I absolutely agree. > When dpkg is fixed, the XKB data can move to xlibs-data, and xlibs-data > can Pre-Depend (I think) on dpkg (>= whatever-version-fixed-it). Who is actually maintaining dpkg? No, rephrase that: Is anyone actively maintaining dpkg? Last time doogie seemed too busy. Regards, Ender. - -- Prepare ship for ludicrous speed! Fasten all seatbelts, seal all entrances and exits, close all shops in the mall, cancel the three ring circus, secure all animals in the zoo! -- Colonel Sandurz (Spaceballs). - -- Servicios de red - Network services RedIRIS - Spanish Academic Network for Research and Development Madrid (Spain) Tlf (+34) 91.585.51.50 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAPy0RWs/EhA1iABsRArV/AKCwkRjBbl6/QB+3UZNfoN+xAWqrlACg4FfN I2qttqnwH1IqS7smmgwam7k= =xEbn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----