Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/07/2011 10:55 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-02-07 17:45 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom<hvw59601@care2.com>  wrote:
> > > Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver
> > > packages. Wait a bit?
> >
> > It's a dependency thing, not sure if it'll go away later, or if it's
> > due to a change in xorg package...  xserver-xorg-core now is claimed
> > to break xserver-xorg-input-7 and xserver-xorg-video-6.  xserver-xorg
> > depends upon xserver-xorg-core, so it can't be installed unless the
> > former does.  Most input and video drivers provide those virtual
> > packages, so most drivers are broken by xserver-xorg-core at this
> > moment.  I'm not sure if this is due to new versions of the drivers
> > are waiting to be included in the repos, or because now all of them
> > now come with just one bigger/bloated package.
>
> The problem is that the drivers got uploaded but were automatically
> rejected, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2011/02/msg00360.html for
> more information.
>
> I'm afraid this won't be dissolved for some days.

The problem for me is that dist-upgrade wants to install 
libdrm-nouveau1, which blasts nvidia-glx.

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