Bug#1128905: libx11-6: 19-year-old NEWS.Debian file added

Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.x
Message-ID <20260224175334.GH3223__27885.9011292056$1771955732$gmane$org@qaa.vinc17.org>
On 2026-02-24 19:31:29 +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> What do you mean by "added"? It hasn't been touched since 2008.

No, it has just been added into "/usr/share/doc/libx11-6".

On a machine with libx11-6 2:1.8.12-1, I have:

qaa% ls -l /usr/share/doc/libx11-6
total 284
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2104 2025-03-21 07:30:50 changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235772 2025-03-09 00:53:24 changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  47102 2025-03-21 07:30:50 copyright

On a machine with libx11-6 2:1.8.13-1, I have:

disset% ls -l /usr/share/doc/libx11-6
total 292
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    963 2026-02-24 08:22:14 NEWS.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2134 2026-02-24 08:22:14 changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 238637 2026-02-07 23:26:57 changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  47102 2026-02-24 08:22:14 copyright

See the difference?

> If you saw it only now, then it must be due to something else.

No, it is this file:

disset% gunzip -c /usr/share/doc/libx11-6/NEWS.Debian.gz
libx11 (2:1.1-1) experimental; urgency=low
[...]
 -- Josh Triplett <[email protected]>  Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:36:55 -0800
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