Bug#552396: libpixman-1-0: undefined symbol in libpixman

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>]

2009/10/26 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 00:54:04 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>
>> Package: libpixman-1-0
>> Version: 0.14.0-1
>> Severity: important
>>
>>
>>
>> X: symbol lookup error: X: undefined symbol: pixman_disable_out_of_bounds_workaround
>>
>> I have pixman 0.14 and X was probably built with some later version but
>> does not depend on it.
>>
> What version of X?  AFAICT 1.6.5 doesn't reference that symbol, and 1.7
> depends on pixman 0.15.16.
>

Yes, it's a problem with dpkg. It allows installing a package even if
it breaks another packages.

The X server 1.7 depends on a higher version of libpixman but dpkg
still installs 0.14 and breaks it.

Thanks

Michal