Bug#602797: upgrade-reports: problems with aptitude, apt-listchanges, php-net-smtp (php-pear), casper (obsolete), junior-games-gl and xserver-xorg-video-ati

[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 12:06:27PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> The removed drivers seem fine, from your log, they're obsolete and not
> available in squeeze (cyrix, imstt, i810).  Xorg's autoconfiguration in
> lenny and squeeze uses a different mechanism for picking a driver, and
> the new one chooses the ati wrapper, which you didn't seem to have
> installed.  It's better to have xserver-xorg-video-all installed to
> avoid issues like this.

I've documented this bit in the Release notes by reviewing the content
of the 'Obsolete packages' section. See:
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/ddp/manuals/trunk/release-notes/en/upgrading.dbk?r1=7749&r2=7750

I wonder wether we should add this our suggestion of installing the
xserver-xorg-video-all package installed in the "Known issues" section as
this problem might arise to other users who have manually selected an Xorg
driver (i.e. they have not installed the 'desktop' task or the 'xorg'
metapackage)

Regards

Javier

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