Comment 8 for bug 60823

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:40:35PM -0000, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> xorg (1:7.0.6) experimental; urgency=low
>
> * At the urgent request of the release and ftp teams, xlibs must die. Have
> the xserver-xorg package recommend xkb-data instead. xkb-data should
> already be pulled in by several pieces including the xorg metapackage,
> xutils, and xbase-clients
>
> but the main reason is that since xlibs-static-dev and xlibs-dev are not there anylonger, there is very little point to carry around a xlibs.
> Each package will need to B-D on the proper -dev and dh_shlibs will build the correct Depends: line for them.
>
> while we can agree that installing all the xlibs is not that expensive
> (size wise) other people would complain that for a 4KB x apps that only
> requires libx11-6, they don't want to install 20MB of extra stuff
> because of maintainer lazyness.
>
> so it has been agreed to do it right and in full and kill the package.
>
> Also to note that we don't have xlibs in dapper. Reintroducing it would
> be just pointless when all the other packages are transitioning.

Please understand, I am not suggesting that packages depend or build-depend
on xlibs, only that it exist as a convenience for users to install who want
to have the standard set of libraries. I still do not understand why it was
removed in the first place as it was not necessary for the dependency
transition.

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 - mdz