Your message dated Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:48:47 +0000
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and subject line Bug#408837: fixed in xcursor-themes 1.0.1-6
has caused the Debian Bug report #408837,
regarding xcursor-themes: please clarify package description
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Package: xcursor-themes
Version: 1.0.1-5
Severity: wishlist
Please consider clarifying the package description. (Policy 3.4: describe
it to a user (system administrator) who has never met it before so that
they have enough information to decide whether they want to install it).
I've just done a sarge -> etch upgrade and I'm now removing dummy packages.
One such is "xlibs-data". The description says it's safe to remove it,
but if I do, then "xcursor-themes" will disappear as well (auto-dependency).
Is that okay? The description doesn't help me decide.
No (non-dummy) package in etch seems to depend on, or even suggest,
xcursor-themes, but I would expect X to need _some_ cursors. Are the themes
merely additional, optional themed cursors, not needed for a working X? (In
other words, does X contain some even more "basic" cursors built in?)
Currently, in the short description "base X cursor themes", the word "base"
(and the fact that they came from a pretty core X package before the
transition) suggests that they are needed, the word "themes" suggests not.
The long description doesn't help.
[Maybe, to an X developer, "base X" means "part of X11 since the year
dot". But to the rest of us, it could mean fundamental, important.]
If they are in fact optional, perhaps the package description could be
something more like this?
Traditional X cursor themes (handhelds, redglass, whiteglass) for use
with the Xcursor library. They used to be part of the xlibs-data
package. They are now packaged separately because most users only need
the standard cursors built into X.
Please see libxcursor1 for more information.
OR, if they do matter, something like this?
Base X cursor themes (handhelds, redglass, and whiteglass) for use
with the Xcursor library. Most X installations require this package to
ensure that at least some cursors are available. These cursors used to
be part of the xlibs-data package.
Please see libxcursor1 for more information.
Regards,
(Dr) J S Bygott
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Debian Release: 4.0
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Source: xcursor-themes
Source-Version: 1.0.1-6
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xcursor-themes, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
xcursor-themes_1.0.1-6.diff.gz
to pool/main/x/xcursor-themes/xcursor-themes_1.0.1-6.diff.gz
xcursor-themes_1.0.1-6.dsc
to pool/main/x/xcursor-themes/xcursor-themes_1.0.1-6.dsc
xcursor-themes_1.0.1-6_all.deb
to pool/main/x/xcursor-themes/xcursor-themes_1.0.1-6_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 408...@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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David Nusinow <dnusi...@debian.org> (supplier of updated xcursor-themes package)
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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:05:10 -0400
Source: xcursor-themes
Binary: xcursor-themes
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.0.1-6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: David Nusinow <dnusi...@debian.org>
Changed-By: David Nusinow <dnusi...@debian.org>
Description:
xcursor-themes - Base X cursor themes
Closes: 365061 408837
Changes:
xcursor-themes (1.0.1-6) unstable; urgency=low
.
[ Brice Goglin ]
* Replace xbase-clients with x11-apps in Build-Depends since this is
where xcursorgen is now.
.
[ David Nusinow ]
* Update xsfbs
* Add README.Debian explaining how to use these cursors.
Also includes description of what cursors the package provides. Thanks
to John Goerzen for reporting this and Hamish for providing the
README.Debian file. Closes: #365061
* Clean up the package description a little. Closes: #408837
* Remove Branden and Fabio from the Maintainer list
* Remove conflicts and replaces on ancient xlibs-data
* Add support for parallel make
* Bump standards version to 3.8.3.0
* Add a watch file
* autoreconf at build time. Add automake to build-deps.
* Bump debhelper compat to 7. No changes needed.
* Fix the copyright notice to point to the right place
* Remove dh_clean -k and add a dh_prep in configure target
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