On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 07:24:12PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FWIW the xlibs package is in a similar situation, though it is not > > dummy. Would it be possible to move XKB stuff to another package? > > I maintain (though I need to seriously work on it) xkeyboard-config > > in experimental, this package is an alternative to xlibs. > > xlibs contains more than 300 dpkg-conffiles, and moving them from one > package to another requires lots of manual md5summing in the > package maintainer scripts as dpkg does not handle this at all and > will throw lots of unnecessary configuration-file changed prompts. > > That is same problem anybody switching from xfree96 to xorg > experiences with /etc/Xsession, just on a gigantic scale.
Check out the xlibs and xkeyboard-config packages from Ubuntu for how this has been done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
