On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 03:31:13PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org

> Quoting from http://release.debian.org/lenny/rc_policy.txt:

> 5. General
> [...]
>   (m) X support
> 
> [...]
> 
>         Packages must not install files in to /usr/{bin,include,lib}/X11,
>         however, they should reference the files by these names in preference
>         to the corresponding /usr/X11R6/ directories.

> This paragraph should be removed, I think (it was already wrong for etch).
> Nowadays, packages must not install files in to /usr/X11R6, and if they
> install files in /usr/{include,lib}/X11 they must pre-depend on
> x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0).

I think the pre-depends is also unnecessary for lenny since this version of
x11-common was in etch and skipping releases is not supported, so we should
not need to encourage maintainers to add this field anywhere that it isn't
already present.

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