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

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 14:35:23 +0200, Manuel Hachtkemper wrote:

> 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
> 
You most likely don't need these drivers, their functionality has been
replaced by xserver-xorg-input-evdev in squeeze.

Cheers,
Julien