Comment 83 for bug 219630

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:17:02PM -0000, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Oliver, I'm sorry but I haven't observed this behavior you describe on
> any of the LX hardware I have access to.

> However, removing the symbolic link solved the issue on each and every
> LX hardware I tested, while leaving it prevented X from launching, again
> on every LX hardware I have access to.

It turns out that the package that has been uploaded to -proposed was not a
valid test. Although the changelog said the symlink had been re-added, it
was not, and I didn't notice this when accepting the package.

I'm uploading a package to -proposed, which does add the symlink back,
*only* to the transitional -amd package. That means that any problems will
be restricted to users who are upgrading from gutsy and have the -amd
package still installed.

I have asked Oliver to do a spot test by re-adding the symlink to his LTSP
chroot by hand, to confirm that this breaks things for him too. I fully
expect that it will.

I have also asked Marc Tardif to do a local install test, to check whether
this symlink breaks anything for users who aren't using LTSP's Xorg
-configure, since that's the use case (users with a static xorg.conf who are
upgrading) where we potentially have a regression from 8.04.

*Only* if Marc reports that it works for him with the symlink present, I
will accept the symlink-ing package into -proposed. (If he reports that it
doesn't work, then presumably the symlink won't provide any benefit to users
with static xorg.conf, either.)

I'll give this to the end of day today (UTC-7) to be resolved; if we don't
reach a resolution, I'll default to the package currently in -proposed which
does not include the symlink.

FWIW, I agree with you in principle that leaving the symbolic link there is
postponing the inevitable; unfortunately, we have to contend with the fact
that this symbolic link did *not* get dropped prior to the release of Ubuntu
8.04, and dropping it now may represent a regression for users who are
already an Ubuntu 8.04. We should avoid that if at all possible.

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