Bug#362313: xserver-xorg dependency hell
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 15:27 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 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 ...
Nice, one direction down, one left. :)
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