On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:59:40AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > > The bad news, though, is that no such link is shipped for > > > encodings/large. > > > If the maintainer cares about maintaining compatibility, in my opinion > > > the way to go would be to ask the xfonts-encodings maintainer to add > > > such > > > extra compatibility link, use the X11R6 paths in the script, and > > > Depend: xfonts-encodings (>= 1:1.0.0-5something) | xfonts-base (<< > > > 1:1).
> > If compatibility with earlier X packages is maintained, can't the dependency > > just be kept as "xutils" as it is currently? Both old and new versions of > > xutils are sufficient to ensure the encodings.dir is made available in the > > legacy location. > Hum. I can see that for xutils 1:7.0.0-3 (xutils -> xfonts-utils -> > xfonts-encodings), but I fail to see the same for xutils 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 > and xutils 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1. Am I missing something? Nope, I was the one missing something. You're right, older versions of xutils don't ensure the encodings.dir is present. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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