Debian Bug report logs - #151613
xbase-clients: xauth (for ssh) should be its own package

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christopher Curtis <ccurtis@aet-usa.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: xbase-clients: xauth (for ssh) should be its own package

Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 18:05:45 -0400

Package: xbase-clients
Version: 4.1.0-17
Severity: important

Perhaps "important" is too strong, this may even be wishlist, but:

$ ssh -X root@remote-machine
# x-program
*** Unable to open display ***
# apt-get install xbase-clients
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libdps1 xlibmesa3 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdps1 xbase-clients xlibmesa3 
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 68  not upgraded.
Need to get 5043kB of archives. After unpacking 15.2MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

15+MB of space required for a 30k executable??

Would it be too much trouble to pull out xauth for us ssh users?

Thanks!

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux eclipse 2.4.9-k6 #1 Sun Aug 19 11:48:27 EST 2001 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii  cpp                     2:2.95.4-6       The GNU C preprocessor.
ii  debconf                 1.0.00           Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                   2.2.4-5          GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdps1                 4.1.0-4          Display PostScript (DPS) client li
ii  libfreetype6            2.0.1.20010317-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libncurses5             5.2.20020112a-7  Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libxaw7                 4.1.0-4          X Athena widget set library
ii  xlibmesa3               4.1.0-7          XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphic
ii  xlibmesa3 [libgl1]      4.1.0-7          XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphic
ii  xlibs                   4.1.0-5          X Window System client libraries

Message #10 received at 151613-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>

To: 151613-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#151613: xbase-clients: xauth (for ssh) should be its own package

Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:37:41 -0500

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On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:05:45PM -0400, Christopher Curtis wrote:
> Package: xbase-clients
> Version: 4.1.0-17
> Severity: important
> 
> Perhaps "important" is too strong, this may even be wishlist, but:

Yes, it's wishlist.  The strength of your desire to see a change made
has no bearing on a bug's severity.

> 15+MB of space required for a 30k executable??

xauth links against xlibs:

$ objdump -p /usr/bin/X11/xauth | grep NEEDED
  NEEDED      libXmuu.so.1
  NEEDED      libXext.so.6
  NEEDED      libX11.so.6
  NEEDED      libc.so.6

xbase-clients contains X clients that link against the X libraries.

> Would it be too much trouble to pull out xauth for us ssh users?

Yes.  People would still have to install xlibs, and they'd complain
about that, too.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |      "To be is to do"   -- Plato
Debian GNU/Linux                   |      "To do is to be"   -- Aristotle
branden@debian.org                 |      "Do be do be do"   -- Sinatra
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Message #15 received at 151613-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christopher Curtis <ccurtis@aet-usa.com>

To: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>, 151613-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#151613: xbase-clients: xauth (for ssh) should be its own package

Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 20:27:49 -0400

Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:05:45PM -0400, Christopher Curtis wrote:
> 
>>Package: xbase-clients
>>Version: 4.1.0-17
>>Severity: important
> 
> Yes, it's wishlist.  The strength of your desire to see a change made
> has no bearing on a bug's severity.

8-(

> xauth links against xlibs:
> 
> $ objdump -p /usr/bin/X11/xauth | grep NEEDED
>   NEEDED      libXmuu.so.1
>   NEEDED      libXext.so.6
>   NEEDED      libX11.so.6
>   NEEDED      libc.so.6

That much makes sense to me.  I would expect to have to download *some* 
X11 library stuff for xauth, but what I downloaded seemed excessive.

I'm certainly not qualified enough to make packaging decisions, but will 
only ask that you consider some means of stripping xauth (since it is 
very useful without the rest of X, and the other packages in the package 
really add nothing except more dependencies) in the future.

My case is that I need to run an X app remotely to manage a firewall 
installed in the machine (a Merilus Firecard, with Java app) and I am 
behind a NAT proxy.  Things like glxgears (the mesa dependency, I'm 
sure), xftcache (the freetype dependency) and startx do me no good with 
the box so many miles away.

Perhaps there is room to reshuffle some of these around?  Surely there 
can be better places to put a couple of these few executables with some 
of the heavier dependencies, leaving xbase-clients a bit leaner. 
glxgears and xftcache certainly seem like they would be well off homed 
in another (more closely related) package.

I don't mean to ask much, and I hope I'm not.

Mark me wishlist if you must; I petition for "normal"  ;-)

regards,
Chris

Message #18 received at 151613-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>

To: 151613-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Cc: debian-x@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#151613: xbase-clients: xauth (for ssh) should be its own package

Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:20:31 -0500

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[Ccing debian-x.  Volunteers wanted!]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 08:27:49PM -0400, Christopher Curtis wrote:
> >Yes, it's wishlist.  The strength of your desire to see a change made
> >has no bearing on a bug's severity.
> 
> 8-(

Well, think about it.  Such things are highly subjective.  You can read
about the meanings of Debian bug severities at:

http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer

The definitions are not perfectly objective, but they are a little
better than letting the submitter's annoyance level dictate the
severity.

> That much makes sense to me.  I would expect to have to download *some* 
> X11 library stuff for xauth, but what I downloaded seemed excessive.
[...]
> I don't mean to ask much, and I hope I'm not.
> 
> Mark me wishlist if you must; I petition for "normal"  ;-)

The bug report is a feature request; you're requesting a new package.
Therefore "wishlist" is the proper severity.

What you, and other people who have complained that they "just want
xauth and nothing else" really want is a simple tool for manipulating
.Xauthority files.  Presumably this would be a clone of the existing
xauth without the "generate" functionality (see xauth(1x)).

Such a version of xauth would not, I think, need to link against the X
libraries at all; a few simple utility functions from the X libraries
could be duplicated in its source code, but nothing as complex as
XOpenDisplay() which is used only by the "generate" function.

Such a utility would be packaged separately, or included in the xutils
package.  Which of these courses of action would be taken would likely
depend on how XFree86 felt about including such a tool in a future
upstream release.  This tool -- perhaps it could be called "minixauth"
or "uxauth" ("u" for the Greek "mu" meaning "micro" in SI prefix
nomenclature) -- would need to be licensed under MIT/X11 terms to be
acceptable to XFree86.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |    Any man who does not realize that
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    he is half an animal is only half a
branden@debian.org                 |    man.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |    -- Thornton Wilder

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Message #23 received at 151613@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Peter Buxton <peter@killdevil.org>

To: 151613@bugs.debian.org

Subject: xauth + ssh

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 01:40:07 -0400

I also had to hunt down and install xauth to use X-over-ssh on a P-166
with 80 MB RAM and text-only hardware. It is the sole server for an AIDS
charity I do volunteer work for, and I try to keep it lean until it can
be replaced--of course, it will probably become the new VPN router in
another county, so it may still run an X client then, too.

> Such a utility would be packaged separately, or included in the xutils
> package.  Which of these courses of action would be taken would likely
> depend on how XFree86 felt about including such a tool in a future
> upstream release.  This tool -- perhaps it could be called "minixauth"
> or "uxauth" ("u" for the Greek "mu" meaning "micro" in SI prefix
> nomenclature) -- would need to be licensed under MIT/X11 terms to be
> acceptable to XFree86.

It would, of course, also have to be accepted by the SSH people, so that
ssh would know to try uxauth, then xauth, not to mention a lot of
possible now-and-future hands-on X forwarders. Or, you can add one more
entry to /etc/alternatives. Me, I just 'dpkg -P xbase-clients, libdps1
xlibmesa3' after copying xauth to /usr/local/bin. Works great, and no
need to bother Branden Robinson with questions. Why shouldn't passwd(1)
depend on Display Postscript and OpenGL?


cares:12:16 AM:~# apt-get install xbase-clients
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libdps1 xlibmesa3
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdps1 xbase-clients xlibmesa3
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not
upgraded.
Need to get 5045kB of archives. After unpacking 15.2MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
    

-- 
http://www.killdevil.org/~peter
Not playing Elvis Costello isn't as good
as not playing Bob Dylan. -- lsg

Message #28 received at 151613@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Florian Weimer <Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>

To: Peter Buxton <peter@killdevil.org>

Cc: 151613@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#151613: xauth + ssh

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:48:21 +0200

Peter Buxton <peter@killdevil.org> writes:

>> Such a utility would be packaged separately, or included in the xutils
>> package.  Which of these courses of action would be taken would likely
>> depend on how XFree86 felt about including such a tool in a future
>> upstream release.  This tool -- perhaps it could be called "minixauth"
>> or "uxauth" ("u" for the Greek "mu" meaning "micro" in SI prefix
>> nomenclature) -- would need to be licensed under MIT/X11 terms to be
>> acceptable to XFree86.
>
> It would, of course, also have to be accepted by the SSH people, so that
> ssh would know to try uxauth, then xauth, not to mention a lot of
> possible now-and-future hands-on X forwarders.

IMHO, this is not necessary.  The X11 library overhead is a red
herring.  In most situations, you need them anyway to run X11
applications.  I find the dependencies on xlibmesa3 and libdps1 more
troublesome, and it shouldn't be too complicated to remove them.

-- 
Florian Weimer 	                  Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
University of Stuttgart           http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/people/fw/
RUS-CERT                          fax +49-711-685-5898

Message #33 received at 151613-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>

To: Florian Weimer <Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>, 151613-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Peter Buxton <peter@killdevil.org>, debian-x@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#151613: xauth + ssh

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:39:19 -0500

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On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:48:21PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> IMHO, this is not necessary.  The X11 library overhead is a red
> herring.  In most situations, you need them anyway to run X11
> applications.  I find the dependencies on xlibmesa3 and libdps1 more
> troublesome, and it shouldn't be too complicated to remove them.

No, but I'm not going to do that.

It would take about half an hour for someone who bellyaches about this
problem to make a source package out of xc/programs/xauth, build-depend
on xlibs-dev and xutils, and have an alternative xauth package that is
statically linked against libXmuu, libXext, and libX11.

Please, do so.  I will fully support you in this endeavor as it will get
a lot of people off my back.

I'm not sure "tiny-xauth" would be the right name for such a package,
given that it won't be smaller than the normal xauth executable.  Maybe
"static-xauth".  It could either divert the normal xauth or
Conflict/Replace/Provide xbase-clients.  (It will have to do one or the
author because some packages Build-Depend on xbase-clients for xauth.)

So, let's chat about this on debian-x and see what can be done.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     It's not a matter of alienating
Debian GNU/Linux                   |     authors.  They have every right to
branden@debian.org                 |     license their software however we
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |     like.  -- Craig Sanders

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Message #38 received at 151613-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Florian Weimer <Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>

To: 151613-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Peter Buxton <peter@killdevil.org>, debian-x@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#151613: xauth + ssh

Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 20:31:49 +0200

Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:48:21PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> IMHO, this is not necessary.  The X11 library overhead is a red
>> herring.  In most situations, you need them anyway to run X11
>> applications.  I find the dependencies on xlibmesa3 and libdps1 more
>> troublesome, and it shouldn't be too complicated to remove them.
>
> No, but I'm not going to do that.

Why?  They cause most of the bloat.

> It would take about half an hour for someone who bellyaches about this
> problem to make a source package out of xc/programs/xauth, build-depend
> on xlibs-dev and xutils, and have an alternative xauth package that is
> statically linked against libXmuu, libXext, and libX11.

Why do you think static linking is required?  In the situation that
sparked this thread (xauth + ssh), dynamic linking is enough because
on the remote systems, xlibs is required anyway, otherwise you
wouldn't have any applications to which you can forward connections
(some obscure cases involving clx ignored).

-- 
Florian Weimer 	                  Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
University of Stuttgart           http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/people/fw/
RUS-CERT                          fax +49-711-685-5898

Message #43 received at 151613@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@gorodok.net>

To: 151613@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#151613: xauth + ssh

Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 12:59:57 +0700

Hello,

I think it's the time to ressurect this bug: it was closed as
'wontfix' when there was an monolithic X tree, and now it should be
easy to split out 'xauth' package depending only to libx11-6 and
libxau6.

-- 
Mikhail Gusarov
ICQ UIN: 111575219
JID: dottedmag@jabber.fanstvo.com

Message #48 received at 151613@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net>

To: 151613@bugs.debian.org

Subject: xbase-clients: xauth (for ssh) should be its own package

Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:43:42 +0700

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Attached is the patch which splits out xauth to the independent
package. This package will depend only to x11-common, libxmuu1,
libxext6 and libxau6.

-- 
Mikhail Gusarov
ICQ UIN: 111575219
JID: dottedmag@jabber.dottedmag.net

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diff -Nru xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1/debian/control xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1-fixed/debian/control
--- xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1/debian/control	2005-10-10 20:26:51.000000000 +0700
+++ xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1-fixed/debian/control	2005-10-09 21:30:03.000000000 +0700
@@ -1954,6 +1954,13 @@
  This package no longer provides the 'mkfontscale' program; it has instead been
  moved to xutils.
 
+Package: xauth
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Description: X authority file utility
+ The xauth program is used to edit and display the authorization
+ information used in connecting to the X server.
+
 Package: xdm
 Architecture: any
 Depends: debconf (>= 1.2.9) | debconf-2.0, xbase-clients, cpp, libpam-modules, libpam-runtime (>= 0.76-13.1), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
diff -Nru xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1/debian/xauth.install xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1-fixed/debian/xauth.install
--- xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1/debian/xauth.install	1970-01-01 07:00:00.000000000 +0700
+++ xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1-fixed/debian/xauth.install	2005-10-09 21:30:03.000000000 +0700
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
+usr/X11R6/man/man1/xauth.1x
diff -Nru xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1/debian/xauth.install.s390 xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1-fixed/debian/xauth.install.s390
--- xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1/debian/xauth.install.s390	1970-01-01 07:00:00.000000000 +0700
+++ xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1-fixed/debian/xauth.install.s390	2005-10-09 21:30:03.000000000 +0700
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
+usr/X11R6/man/man1/xauth.1x
diff -Nru xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1/debian/xauth.README.Debian xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1-fixed/debian/xauth.README.Debian
--- xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1/debian/xauth.README.Debian	1970-01-01 07:00:00.000000000 +0700
+++ xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1-fixed/debian/xauth.README.Debian	2005-10-09 21:30:03.000000000 +0700
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+Debian README for xauth package
+=======================================
+
+Newcomers to the X Window System should first read the Debian X FAQ
+(Frequently Asked Questions list): /usr/share/doc/x11-common/FAQ.gz.
+You can view this file with your favorite pager program after decompressing
+it.  For example:
+    $ zcat /usr/share/doc/x11-common/FAQ.gz | pager
+
+ -- Mikhail Gusarov <mag@vertex.dottedmag>, Sun Oct  9 21:22:42 2005
diff -Nru xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1/debian/xbase-clients.install xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1-fixed/debian/xbase-clients.install
--- xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1/debian/xbase-clients.install	2005-10-10 20:26:52.000000000 +0700
+++ xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1-fixed/debian/xbase-clients.install	2005-10-09 21:30:03.000000000 +0700
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@
 usr/X11R6/bin/viewres
 usr/X11R6/bin/x11perf
 usr/X11R6/bin/x11perfcomp
-usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
 usr/X11R6/bin/xbiff
 usr/X11R6/bin/xcalc
 usr/X11R6/bin/xclipboard
@@ -171,7 +170,6 @@
 usr/X11R6/man/man1/viewres.1x
 usr/X11R6/man/man1/x11perf.1x
 usr/X11R6/man/man1/x11perfcomp.1x
-usr/X11R6/man/man1/xauth.1x
 usr/X11R6/man/man1/xbiff.1x
 usr/X11R6/man/man1/xcalc.1x
 usr/X11R6/man/man1/xclipboard.1x
diff -Nru xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1/debian/xbase-clients.install.s390 xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1-fixed/debian/xbase-clients.install.s390
--- xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1/debian/xbase-clients.install.s390	2005-10-10 20:26:52.000000000 +0700
+++ xorg-x11-6.8.2.dfsg.1-fixed/debian/xbase-clients.install.s390	2005-10-09 21:30:03.000000000 +0700
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@
 usr/X11R6/bin/viewres
 usr/X11R6/bin/x11perf
 usr/X11R6/bin/x11perfcomp
-usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
 usr/X11R6/bin/xbiff
 usr/X11R6/bin/xcalc
 usr/X11R6/bin/xclipboard
@@ -166,7 +165,6 @@
 usr/X11R6/man/man1/viewres.1x
 usr/X11R6/man/man1/x11perf.1x
 usr/X11R6/man/man1/x11perfcomp.1x
-usr/X11R6/man/man1/xauth.1x
 usr/X11R6/man/man1/xbiff.1x
 usr/X11R6/man/man1/xcalc.1x
 usr/X11R6/man/man1/xclipboard.1x

Message #61 received at 151613@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Josip Rodin <joy@debbugs.entuzijast.net>

To: 151613@bugs.debian.org

Subject: xauth

Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 01:29:34 +0200

Hi,

To get xauth, one currently has to get (but note that I had previously
pulled in libxp6 libxt6 libxtst6 and their dependencies):

% sudo aptitude --without-recommends install xbase-clients
[...]
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fontconfig-config libdrm2 libfontconfig1 libfs6 libgl1-mesa-glx libxaw7 
  libxcursor1 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6 libxkbfile1 libxmu6 libxmuu1 
  libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtrap6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1 
  libxxf86vm1 xbase-clients 
0 packages upgraded, 22 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2269kB of archives. After unpacking 6590kB will be used.

It's not as large as it used to be, but it's a bit more annoying :)

Splitting out xauth would be a Good Idea(TM). In this particular case,
I just want to run an X program over an ssh session; that's a legitimate,
even a relatively common use case, I think.

Maybe xbase-clients in general could be further split to separate things
that don't need all this font and OpenGL stuff. But xauth should be the
first to go.

-- 
     2. That which causes joy or happiness.

Message #66 received at 151613@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>

To: 151613@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Please reconsider splitting out xauth!

Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 10:59:06 +1000

# apt-get install xbase-clients
...
The following extra packages will be installed:
  cpp cpp-4.1 gcc-4.1-base libdrm2 libfs6 libgl1-mesa-glx libpng12-0
  libxcursor1 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxkbfile1 libxmuu1 libxrandr2
  libxss1 libxtrap6 libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1
...
After unpacking 21.9MB of additional disk space will be used.

And afterwards:
# ldd `which xauth`
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x8000000000000000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x200000000004c000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x2000000000060000)
        libXmuu.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXmuu.so.1 (0x2000000000098000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x20000000000b0000)
        libc.so.6.1 => /lib/libc.so.6.1 (0x20000000002a4000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x20000000004f8000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x2000000000510000)
        /lib/ld-linux-ia64.so.2 (0x2000000000000000)

Of the extra packages installed to meet xbase-clients dependencies,
the only one necessary for xauth was libxmuu1.

All I want at present is to ssh in to a headless, small disk (1G)
virtual machine and run xterm.
--
Dr Peter Chubb     http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au  peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au
http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au           ERTOS within National ICT Australia

Message #71 received at 151613@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>

To: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>, 151613@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#151613: Please reconsider splitting out xauth!

Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 03:36:29 +0200

See http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2007/05/msg01496.html and thank
Timo for actually doing that work instead of just complaining about it.

Cheers,
Julien

Message #76 received at 151613@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>

To: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>

Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>, 151613@bugs.debian.org, tjaalton@cc.hut.fi

Subject: Re: Bug#151613: Please reconsider splitting out xauth!

Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:10:51 +1000

>>>>> "Julien" == Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:

Julien> See http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2007/05/msg01496.html and
Julien> thank Timo for actually doing that work instead of just
Julien> complaining about it.

Hurrah!  And yes, thankyou thankyou Timo.

Any idea of when it'll be in unstable for arm and ia64?

Peter C
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Message #81 received at 151613-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>

To: 151613-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#151613: fixed in xorg 1:7.2.ds3-1

Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:02:05 +0000

Source: xorg
Source-Version: 1:7.2.ds3-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xorg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

libglu1-xorg-dev_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/x/xorg/libglu1-xorg-dev_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
libglu1-xorg_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/x/xorg/libglu1-xorg_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
x11-common_7.2.ds3-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xorg/x11-common_7.2.ds3-1_i386.deb
xbase-clients_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/x/xorg/xbase-clients_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
xlibmesa-gl-dev_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/x/xorg/xlibmesa-gl-dev_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
xlibmesa-gl_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/x/xorg/xlibmesa-gl_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
xlibmesa-glu_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/x/xorg/xlibmesa-glu_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
xlibs-data_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/x/xorg/xlibs-data_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
xlibs-static-dev_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/x/xorg/xlibs-static-dev_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
xorg-dev_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/x/xorg/xorg-dev_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
xorg_7.2.ds3-1.dsc
  to pool/main/x/xorg/xorg_7.2.ds3-1.dsc
xorg_7.2.ds3-1.tar.gz
  to pool/main/x/xorg/xorg_7.2.ds3-1.tar.gz
xorg_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/x/xorg/xorg_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
xserver-xorg-input-all_7.2.ds3-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xorg/xserver-xorg-input-all_7.2.ds3-1_i386.deb
xserver-xorg-video-all_7.2.ds3-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xorg/xserver-xorg-video-all_7.2.ds3-1_i386.deb
xserver-xorg_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/x/xorg/xserver-xorg_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
xutils_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/x/xorg/xutils_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 151613@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> (supplier of updated xorg package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:16:00 +0200
Source: xorg
Binary: xlibs-static-dev xbase-clients xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg x11-common xorg-dev xlibmesa-gl-dev xserver-xorg-input-all xutils libglu1-xorg-dev xlibmesa-glu libglu1-xorg xlibmesa-gl xorg xlibs-data
Architecture: source all i386
Version: 1:7.2.ds3-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Description: 
 libglu1-xorg - transitional package for Debian etch
 libglu1-xorg-dev - transitional package for Debian etch
 x11-common - X Window System (X.Org) infrastructure
 xbase-clients - miscellaneous X clients - metapackage
 xlibmesa-gl - transitional package for Debian etch
 xlibmesa-gl-dev - transitional package for Debian etch
 xlibmesa-glu - transitional package for Debian etch
 xlibs-data - transitional package for X11 client data
 xlibs-static-dev - transitional metapackage
 xorg       - X.Org X Window System
 xorg-dev   - the X.Org X Window System development libraries
 xserver-xorg - the X.Org X server
 xserver-xorg-input-all - the X.Org X server -- input driver metapackage
 xserver-xorg-video-all - the X.Org X server -- output driver metapackage
 xutils     - X Window System utility programs metapackage
Closes: 151613 330751
Changes: 
 xorg (1:7.2.ds3-1) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   * Add xutils and xbase-clients transitional packages
     + xbase-clients is now split (closes: #151613).
     + ditto xutils (closes: #330751).
   * Bump version number to 1:7.2.ds3 to be higher than xbase-client's current
     version.
   * Remove unused code from debian/rules.
   * xserver-xorg.postinst: drop code to detect the X server; we haven't had
     more than one since XFree86 4.0.
Files: 
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 bb15542d1da1d99e806fb57ea5ca7d07 1042346 x11 optional xorg_7.2.ds3-1.tar.gz
 2fc3df965e2172d75437ac25ac6e8d32 438570 x11 optional xserver-xorg_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
 fc267631eb29151ec8a3a9f5fbe6a38e 21708 x11 optional xorg_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
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 157a4536c03fbde897aead602d245735 21566 libs optional xlibs-static-dev_7.2.ds3-1_all.deb
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