On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:40:35PM -0000, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > xorg (1:7.0.6) experimental; urgency=low > > * At the urgent request of the release and ftp teams, xlibs must die. Have > the xserver-xorg package recommend xkb-data instead. xkb-data should > already be pulled in by several pieces including the xorg metapackage, > xutils, and xbase-clients > > but the main reason is that since xlibs-static-dev and xlibs-dev are not > there anylonger, there is very little point to carry around a xlibs. > Each package will need to B-D on the proper -dev and dh_shlibs will build the > correct Depends: line for them. > > while we can agree that installing all the xlibs is not that expensive > (size wise) other people would complain that for a 4KB x apps that only > requires libx11-6, they don't want to install 20MB of extra stuff > because of maintainer lazyness. > > so it has been agreed to do it right and in full and kill the package. > > Also to note that we don't have xlibs in dapper. Reintroducing it would > be just pointless when all the other packages are transitioning.
Please understand, I am not suggesting that packages depend or build-depend on xlibs, only that it exist as a convenience for users to install who want to have the standard set of libraries. I still do not understand why it was removed in the first place as it was not necessary for the dependency transition. -- - mdz -- Please provide xlibs compatibility package https://launchpad.net/bugs/60823 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
