On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:53:10AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'd like to have lintian start helping with notifying packagers of the > X.Org 7 migration. However, I don't want to make matters worse by putting > in a bad check. If someone has a moment, could you look over the > following set of checks and ensure that they're accurate?
Thanks for doing this! I hadn't even thought about lintian. > (I know more checks are probably needed; at the least, checks for the > versioned dependencies on debhelper and xutils-dev would be good. But > this seems like a good starting point.) > > The three check descriptions are: > > Tag: package-installs-font-to-usr-x11r6 > Type: error > Info: The standard location for X fonts has moved to /usr/share/fonts/X11. > Packages providing X fonts must install them into the new path. Fonts > installed into the old /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts path may not be seen by > the X server. > . > If the package uses imake, it must build-depend on xutils-dev (>= > 1:1.0.2-1) for the correct paths. If it uses dh_installxfonts to handle X > font installation, it must build-depend on debhelper (>= 5.0.29). > > Tag: package-installs-file-to-usr-x11r6-bin > Type: error > Info: Debian has switched to the modular X tree which now uses the regular > FHS paths, and all packages must follow. All packages installing binaries > must install them into /usr/bin (or some other appropriate location) > instead of /usr/X11R6/bin. > . > The x11-common package attempts to change /usr/X11R6/bin into a symlink > to /usr/bin, so if this migration has already occurred, a package > installing files into /usr/X11R6/bin may appear to install > successfully. However, such a package will be left in an inconsistent > state and may orphan files when the compatibility link goes away. > . > If the package uses imake, it must build-depend on xutils-dev (>= > 1:1.0.2-1) for the correct paths. Doing this was broken anyway, unless it was part of the core X Window System, which it wasn't. The tests look fine to me; thanks again for taking this on. Cheers, Daniel
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