[Bug 258821] Re: xmonad

[Pär Andersson]

Just filling in a little more details about this:

xmonad 0.6 in hardy, and 0.7 in hardy-backports does not support
Xinerama.

This is caused by libghc6-x11-dev 1.4.1-1 in hardy (source package
"haskell-x11"). The package is simply built without xinerama-support. In
the current deibian/intrepid-version 1.4.2-1 this have been fixed by
adding a build-dep on libxinerama-dev, but note that this is also a new
upstream version.

The backport is also a bit tricky. All xmonad-packages for some weird
reason have hard coded exakt version dependencies on 1.4.1-1. So after
backporting haskell-x11 you cant just rebuild xmonad and xmonad-contrib,
you have to edit their control-files and update the version everywhere
first. (This would of course also be required if haskell-x11 should be
SRU-ed instead of backported)

With modified dependencies the resulting packages work fine. I have been
running my own backport of haskell-x11 1.4.2 xmonad+xmonad-contrib 0.7 a
while now without any problems. No changes was made except the
dependencies as mentioned, but I could post the trivial debdiffs if
necessary.

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xmonad
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258821
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