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Bug#362313: xserver-xorg dependency hell



On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 21:17 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: 
> > 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.

xserver-xorg-dev installs a file called serverabiver for exactly this
reason, so drivers can version their dependencies.  This is one detail I
didn't get around to implementing in the drivers, but that's why
serverabiver is there ...

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