Bug#362313: xserver-xorg dependency hell
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 21:17 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
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> Thirdly, I don't think users can reasonnably expect the drivers packages
> to depend on the server.
Again, the drivers are useless without the server. If that's not the
definition of 'Depends', then I don't know what is. Also, X.Org 7.1
breaks the video driver ABI, so new drivers won't work with old servers
and vice versa.
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