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Testing: xfree86 calamity



Can anyone help me out on this one?

Upgrading from 2.2r2 using testing, apt-get barfed horribly over moving
from xfree86 3 to 4.

Current situation is the usual circular unmet dependencies circus:

 can't install xlibs 4 because xpm4g 3.6 is to be installed
 can't install libxaw7 because xlibs isn't yet installed ...

There appears to be no way out of this by hand-tweaking, that I can find
-- can't remove xpm4g because everything under X depends on it; can't
install new xlibs because it conflicts with xpm4g -- etc. etc.

apt-get wants to REMOVE 703 Mb (just about everything that runs under X)
-- there *has* to be a better way.

Hasn't there?

Any help really appreciated.
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