On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 08:46:28PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > Ok, good to know, but I still do not see how to purge /etc/X11/xkb ;) > We moved XKB files into /usr/share/X11/xkb, but if admins want to > customise their XKB layouts, they will most certainly copy > /usr/share/X11/xkb into /etc/X11/xkb and make local changes there. > Thus we want to remove files from /etc/X11/xkb only when upgrading from > xlibs. But we will provide xkb-data and xkb-data-legacy, so users > may switch from one package to another, and we do not know when xkb-data > is installed to replace xlibs.
Ok, so maybe we shouldn't touch /etc/X11/xkb at all? Or only purge if the md5sum isn't changed? > If I follow you, xlibs is removed to force other packages to upgrade > their dependencies. This can be achieved by clearing out its Depends > field, it is IMO much cleaner. This is a very good point, and hopefully it'll satisfy ftpmaster. > Anyway this issue can be sorted out after modular xorg is uploaded into > unstable, it is not a blocker. Ok, I'll consider this a high priority once modular is in unstable, alongside any other major issues with upgrading cleanly from sarge. We'll get this sorted out, hopefully making everyone happy :-) - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
