xfree86 4.3 cannot be auto-built
Sorry if this has already been communicated to you by someone else.
It looks like xfree86 4.3 needs to be handbuilt, and that it is fairly
urgent that this happen. Until it is built, no packages Build-Depending
on xlibs-dev can build (including xfree86 itself, which is why it needs
hand-built).
Here is the problem: xlibs-dev was split into seperate libs, is now a
virtual package, and is also now Architecture: all. So, as soon as it
was built on one arch, xlibs-dev 4.3.0-2 replaced xlibs-dev 4.2.1-16 on
all arches in unstable. It cannot be installed, though, until the libs
it depends on are built on each architecture. These libs are built as
part of the xfree86 source package, which cannot be built because it
depends on xlibs-dev which is uninstallable until they are built. :(
As far as I can tell, xfree86 4.3 stil needs built on mips, mipsel,
m68k, and arm.
Josh Metzler
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