On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:17:23PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 07:11:09PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi: are removed, but their replacement > > package, xfonts-base, > > xfonts-base is in NO way a replacement for -100dpi and -75dpi. All > three packages continue to exist in woody.
So the question should be, if these packages were removed, why? Only two packages seem to conflict with xfonts-75dpi, and only one of those is at all common (xbase-clients). Conflicts: ... xfonts-75dpi (<< 3.3.3.1-3) Maybe apt is making the wrong decision about whether to remove or upgrade? Dale, you did upgrade apt by itself before running dist-upgrade, right? apt-get install apt dpkg apt-get dist-upgrade Might yield better results. > > is not installed. This causes the "fixed" fonts to not be found. Some > > form of server dependency would fix this one. > > Wrong. The X server does not depend on locally installed fonts. Read > the package description, read the Debian X FAQ, read 1000 mails I've > sent on this issue over the years. Your ignorance of TCP font service > does not render the facility non-existent. > > In any event, people who don't want to trouble themselves with > understanding things like font service can install one or both of a pair > of meta-packages to make things Just Work(tm): > > x-window-system-core > x-window-system > > Looking up the package descriptions for these meta-packages is left as > an exercise for the reader. (Hint: it involves "apt-cache show".) > > > Principle tools needed by either wdm, or wmaker, (I haven't figured out > > which) are provided by xbase-clients, which is not installed during the > > dist-upgrade... > > FYI, I upgraded a stock potato box (2.2r5) to woody just last week using > dist-upgrade and managed to not lose xbase-clients. > > > At least one of these problems (xfonts-base) can be fixed with a depends > > in the right place. > > Hammurabi, think again! > > > My current question is: How much of this is going to be fixed in the final > > release, and how much should I discuss in my book? > > You should probably develop a greater command of the facts before > dispensing bad advice in your book. > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | We either learn from history or, > Debian GNU/Linux | uh, well, something bad will > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | happen. > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Bob Church -- - mdz
