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

[Ondrej Sury]

On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 14:52 -0500, Ming Hua wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 01:52:56PM +0200, Ondrej Sury wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 13:37 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> > > On zo, 2005-07-31 at 13:13 +0200, Ondrej Sury wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I think that first solution is the right one(tm), but it maybe so much
> > > > work, that second should be done for breezy.
> > > 
> > > Daniel Stone is still working on all the breezy Xorg stuff at the
> > > moment, give him some time to fix issues like this :)
> > 
> > I know that xorg transition is still ongoing, but it seems that
> > depending on "| xlibs (>> 4.1.0)" will be wrong for Breezy anyway.
> > And it's better to speak now than too late, isn't it? :-)
> 
> I am not an expert on this, but IIUC this dependency is generated by
> dh_shlibdeps automatically, which in turn comes from the shlibs of X lib
> packages.  So there should be no mass bug filing anyway, all the changes
> should be done in X.org packages.  Am I right?

Yes and no. :-)  Dependencies are generated by dh_shlibdeps, but you
need to recompile all packages against new libx* with changed shlibs, if
you want to get rid of dependency on xlibs.

Ondrej.
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Ondrej Sury <ondrej at sury.org>