Proposal mass bug filling on packages depending on xlibs(?)

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Sun Jul 31 06:55:06 CDT 2005


On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 01:13:37PM +0200, Ondrej Sury wrote:
> I wanted to fill bug on groff which doesn't depend on libxp6, but found
> much more deeper problem.
> 
> Many packages (5653 at moment) in breezy depend on libx<something> |
> xlibs (>> 4.1.0), which is wrong, because xlibs is transitional package
> and doesn't contain any libraries.
> 
> Either all dependencies has to be changed to drop xlibs (>> 4.1.0) or
> xlibs should start depending on all libx<something> libraries.

Er, good point, yeah.  I hadn't quite noticed that.

> I think that first solution is the right one(tm), but it maybe so much
> work, that second should be done for breezy.

I'll reintroduce the dependencies in -45.  Thanks for the catch.



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