Re: dist-upgrade dependency problem with xlibmesa-glu vs libglu1-mesa
David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net> writes:
> This doesn't appear to be a bug at all, but instead everything looks
> good. xlibmesa-glu is deprecated in favor of
> libglu1-mesa. xserver-common is a dead package as of Xorg 7.0, so it's
> fine that it gets removed. This is all assuming you're on unstable
> though, but even if it's on testing I think it'll be solved by the
> migration of Xorg 7.0 to testing.
> Is there anything besides the removal of xserver-common that you think
> is an issue?
Mostly I think the problem is that aptitude has a hard time figuring out
that it should replace xlibmesa-glu with libglu1-mesa. I had that problem
too. With one upgrade, it was the second or third option in resolving the
dependencies; with another upgrade, there were too many choices and too
many other issues involved and I had to unconfuse it by hand.
This may not be a problem that's solvable cleanly from the X package side,
though.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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