[quoting the whole mail for debian-x's benefit] On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 22:33:22 +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> I think it is safe to use unversioned dependency because even the oldest > versions of console-setup used the same syntax for its configuration > file and had all features X needs. The only important feature that 1.29 > adds is that it reads xorg.conf for defaults when the package is > installed for first time. However: > > 1. If an upgrade of console-setup is forced because of the dependency of > xserver-xorg, the new console-setup will not use xorg.conf because it > already has configuration file. > > 2. If the upgrade of xserver-xorg forces new installation of > console-setup then the new version will come from the same version of > Debian as xserver-xorg so this will be new console-setup. > This is definitely not true as long as testing still has console-setup 1.28. It might be ok to drop the versioned dep, but not before a newer c-s has transitioned to testing, IMO. (even then, I'm not convinced that removing the versioned dep buys us anything over adding a console-setup-mini alternative) > 3. Even if we suppose that some Debian-derived distribution combines the > new xserver-xorg with old console-setup, nothing bad will happen - > console-setup will simply ask the user for their keyboard and build > proper configuration file. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
