[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Bug#427035: xserver-xorg-core: please remove conflicts on fglrx-driver



notfound 427035 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-6~custom
forcemerge 424975 427035
kthxbye

On Fri, Jun  1, 2007 at 14:29:19 +0200, Romain Beauxis wrote:

> Package: xserver-xorg-core
> Version: 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-6~custom

There is no such version of this package in debian.

> Severity: important
> 
> 
>    Hi !
> 
> I have updated the fglrx-driver package into unstable and it does work
> with current xorg.
> Could you remove the conflicts on fglrx-driver then ?
> 

Please don't file duplicate bugs, thanks.

> On a side remark, I feel it completly inapropriate to add such a
> conflict. 
> * First of all there were no 'conflicts' with xserver, simply that fglrx did
>   not work with recent release, and a coresponding bug was opened for
>   that.

"package A does not work with package B" seems to me like a good reason
for a conflict.

> * Even more there never was any package fglrx into unstable that had this
>   issue.
> 
> Now, even though fglrx is corrected and uploaded, users still can't
> install it whereas it actually *works*...
> 
> In the futur, I would beter advice to contact and have an agreement with
> maintainer than add this. I would never have uploaded a fglrx-driver to
> sid with this issue, and I think this conflicts was in cas I would do
> so.. You only needed to ask me and I would have confirmed it...
> 
I'd have thought the tons of bug reports about this could have been
enough for you to notice there was something wrong.

> Now users have to wait for another upload of the xserver to be again
> able to use fglrx..
> 
dpkg --force-conflicts is your friend.

Julien

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature


Reply to: