xserver-xorg(-video) upgrade - problem with input-abi and input-{kbd,mouse}

[Manuel Hachtkemper <hacman@math.uni-bonn.de>]

Hello,

I was trying to upgrade xserver-xorg (because of newer graphics driver) and ran into the following problem:


# aptitude -t squeeze-backports install xserver-xorg-video-radeon
[...]
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  xserver-xorg-input-mouse: Depends: xorg-input-abi-7.0 which is a virtual package.
  xserver-xorg-core: Breaks: xserver-xorg-input-7 which is a virtual package.
  xserver-xorg-input-kbd: Depends: xorg-input-abi-7.0 which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Remove the following packages:
1)     xserver-xorg-input-kbd
2)     xserver-xorg-input-mouse


This happens because xserver-xorg-input-kbd and xserver-xorg-input-mouse aren't available in squeeze-backports.
As it turned out the squeeze version of xserver-xorg-core provides xserver-xorg-input-abi-{6,7}.0 and the squeeze-backports version provides 10 and 12, but input-{kbd,mouse} depend on abi-7.0.

So it would be nice to have those packages in squeeze-backports, too. (Or change the dependencies if this is possible.)

Best regards,
Manuel Hachtkemper