Re: dist-upgrade dependency problem with xlibmesa-glu vs libglu1-mesa
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:15:28AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> 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.
Ok, I've just done this. Steve Langasek let me know what I wasn't seeing
properly. I really shouldn't respond to bug reports when I'm tired and
irritable. The xlibmesa-glu transitional package will be in the next upload
of the xorg source package to unstable.
- David Nusinow
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