On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:20:28AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 02-Oct-2001 Craig Dickson wrote: > > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> This is mixviews violating X policy. Check if there is a bug open > >> and if not file one. > > > > Are you sure? It seems strange. app-defaults is a directory, not a file. > > I would have thought that any X application's package could put a file > > in there. Is it really the sole property of the xlibs package? > > Positive. The X maintainer did this to ensure any package not > following policy is guaranteed to break as well as wanting to change > app-defaults.
No, he tried to avoid these packages breaking (by moving them to /etc/X11/app-defaults in xlibs' preinst), but got the script slightly wrong. It'll be fixed in xlibs 4.1.0-7. mixviews was the source of the main bug, and has been fixed in unstable, but the fixed version hasn't made it to testing yet. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
