re: Can I get some feedback on my experimental pre-release, please?

[Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.msbb.uc.edu>]

Branden,
      The new mesa packaging still has issues. Try this...

dpkg --purge xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu-dev xlibosmesa-dev libglut3-dev glutg3-dev

mkdir debian-pymol
cd debian-pymol
apt-get source pymol
apt-get build-dep pymol

On my machine I get a confusing array of error messages like...

debian:/home/howarth/debian-pymol# apt-get build-dep pymol
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  lightspeed x-window-system x-window-system-core xlibmesa3-gl 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  glutg3-dev libglut3-dev xlibmesa-dev xlibmesa3 
0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/3601kB of archives. After unpacking 5865kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 110102 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing lightspeed ...
Removing x-window-system ...
Removing x-window-system-core ...
dpkg: xlibmesa3-gl: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
 xbase-clients depends on xlibmesa3-gl | libgl1; however:
  Package xlibmesa3-gl is to be removed.
  Package libgl1 is not installed.
  Package xlibmesa3-gl which provides libgl1 is to be removed.
  Package xlibmesa3 which provides libgl1 is not installed.
 xlibosmesa3 depends on xlibmesa3-gl | libgl1; however:
  Package xlibmesa3-gl is to be removed.
  Package libgl1 is not installed.
  Package xlibmesa3-gl which provides libgl1 is to be removed.
  Package xlibmesa3 which provides libgl1 is not installed.
 xbase-clients depends on xlibmesa3-gl | libgl1; however:
  Package xlibmesa3-gl is to be removed.
  Package libgl1 is not installed.
  Package xlibmesa3-gl which provides libgl1 is to be removed.
  Package xlibmesa3 which provides libgl1 is not installed.

...etc...

If I manually install all of the new mesa packages and apt-get -f install
I can get everything in place to build pymol but 'apt-get build-deps pymol'
alone won't work.
                              Jack