Bug#337221: xserver-xorg: undefined colors render important apps unusable
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:49:16PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:45:42AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> > You *really* need to install x11-common, just like I told you the first
> > time you asked us this question. I don't know why it wasn't installed for
> > you, since it seems to have worked fine for everyone else. I assume that
> > your libx11 wasn't upgraded either, since it depends on x11-common, but I
> > have no idea why.
>
> No, xserver-xorg depends on xserver-common (>= 6.8.2.dfsg.1-*), which
> depends on x11-common. The problem is probably that both xfree86-common and
> x11-common own the /etc/X11/rgb.txt conffile. So, if the user purged
> xfree86-common (which he shouldn't have done)... poof.
This shouldn't matter. libx11-6 does depend on x11-common, and no version
of x11-common exists in sarge. If he went whole-hog to sid, then he should
have the xorg libx11-6.
I'm guessing that he tried to upgrade during the broken x11-common period
(which was totally my fault and caused by my hastiness to get 6.9/7.0
ready). Upgrades to sid with the -10 packages should work just fine now I
imagine, aside from the annoying repeat-debconf question bug that's more
annoying than crippling. If he installs the x11-common now, it should fix
this, but I'd like to get some confirmation before actually closing this
bug.
- David Nusinow
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