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Re: dist-upgrade dependency problem with xlibmesa-glu vs libglu1-mesa



On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 09:10:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.

Well, again... there's no real problem with his upgrade.

Also, I can trivially add an xlibmesa-glu transitional package that depends
on libglu1-mesa if that's required.

 - David Nusinow



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