Bug#366695: xserver-xorg-video-i810: Depends on unavailable xserver-xorg-core on etch.
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:12:30PM +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-i810
> Version: 1:1.5.1.0-2
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
>
> Due to a power outage, I had to re-boot my etch box after some months,
> during which I'd updated it, so am now using the modern xserver-xorg-*
> package fragments, where I was using a more monolithic xorg when last
> I booted. When re-booted, I got no xdm up.
This is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365134
>
> Initially, this was because /etc/init.d/xdm referred to
> /usr/bin/X11/xdm, which no longer exists. When I amended that, I
> still got failure, since /etc/X11/default-display-manager had also
> survived, and referred to the same xdm. Reverting the prior amend and
> inserting a symlink in /usr/X11R6/bin/ solved those problems, so that
> xdm at least *tried* to start up.
>
> It still failed, now saying that it couldn't make sense of the
> hardware (I've had a very grim six hours since then, of trying to get
> my machine back in an X-compatible state, without success, so don't
> remember the exact wording; having now reverted to as close as I can
> remember to that state, I lack the /usr/bin/X that xdm wants). Then I
> remembered that xorg had recently gone into many-package form, so went
> looking for a suitable xserver-xorg-video-* for the hardware reported
> to me by lspci:
>
> 0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller (rev 04)
>
> It looks like the package I want is xserver-xorg-video-i810; but, when
> I tried to install that, it was broken, because it depends on
> xserver-xorg-core, which is not present in etch. So I can't actually
> install this package to find out whether it really is what I need.
>
> There seems little point making a package available to testing when it
> depends on a package unavailable to testing.
>
> Carving up a package into lots of little packages is a cool move, as
> long as all hardware set-ups whose support has moved into one of those
> packages are still catered to by a set-up on the branch (in this case
> testing) on which the big package provided support before its demise.
xserver-xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 is still in testing, so you do not need
xserver-xorg-video-i810.
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