> Alad Wenter via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public@archlinux.org> hat am 14. > Februar 2018 um 12:26 geschrieben: > > > > Baptiste Jonglez <bapti...@bitsofnetworks.org> hat am 14. Februar 2018 um > > 10:19 geschrieben: > > > > Quite frankly, the packaging issue itself is minor, I was just surprised > > of the way it was handled: spending time to close several bug reports > > about the issue and telling people that they are stupid [2], instead of just > > fixing the issue in the first place. It goes against (my idea of) common > > sense. > > > I was initially surprised by the force of the reaction you linked, but then > saw this was a response to the *eleventh* request. That makes it a natural > response to people being relentlessly obnoxious. > > About the package itself, I agree that if libxfont2 were an *actual* > replacement of libxfont, then the corresponding field should be filled in. > According to upstream [3], the API/ABI is however entirely different, with > according .so names. As such, you'd make use of packages the rely on the old > API impossible solely for a short-term convenience. > And I forgot the link again:
[3] https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-December/002661.html > Alad