4 Maintainer: XCB Developers <xcb@lists.freedesktop.org>
5 Uploaders: Jamey Sharp <sharpone@debian.org>, Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
6 Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 4.0.0), libxml2-utils
7 Standards-Version: 3.6.1
11 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
12 Pre-Depends: x11-common (>= 1:1.09)
13 Description: X C Binding - protocol descriptions
14 xcb-proto contains descriptions of the X Window System core protocol and
15 selected extensions in an XML-based data format. The X C Binding (XCB)
16 library uses these descriptions to generate much of its code. You only need
17 this package if you want to compile XCB or otherwise make use of these
18 protocol descriptions.
20 The XCB library provides an interface to the X Window System protocol,
21 designed to replace the Xlib interface. XCB provides several advantages over
24 * Size: small library and lower memory footprint
25 * Latency hiding: batch several requests and wait for the replies later
26 * Direct protocol access: one-to-one mapping between interface and protocol
27 * Thread support: access XCB from multiple threads, with no explicit locking
28 * Easy creation of new extensions: automatically generates interface from
29 machine-parsable protocol descriptions
31 Homepage: http://xcb.freedesktop.org