Bug#485938: [compiz-core] Enforces to remove kscreensaver-xsavers

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

notfound 485938 0.7.4-1
found 485938 0.7.6-2
severity 485938 wishlist
thank you



David wrote:
> Package: compiz-core
> Version: 0.7.4-1
> Severity: serious
>
> Last version conflicts with xscreensaver-data-extra, but
> kscreensaver-xsavers depends on xscreensaver-data-extra. I am a KDE
> user so I am not willing to remove kscreensaver-xsavers, I'd rather
> remove compiz (yes, regard it as a threaten :-)  ).
>
> Furthermore, even if kscreensaver-xsavers did not depend on
> xscreensaver-data-extra, I would not remove the latter either, because
> they are so cute (although they work so badly and break the X server,
> at least at the present time :-)  ... :-)  ).
>  
> Why the conflict of compiz-core with xscreensaver-data-extra? Can't it
> be fixed?

See the changelog:
  * Add Conflicts against xscreensaver-data-extra as an unfortunately
    heavy handed workaround to prevent graphical lockups with an as-of-yet
    unknown bug somewhere in the screensaver-compiz-driver-xserver chain.
    (See: #483170, and other bugs/urls referenced in that report)

Brice