Bug#564599: xorg: more intelligent depency check upon upgrade
Package: xorg
Version: 1:7.5+1
Severity: normal
yesterdays upgrade totally broke my X, making the computer effectively
unusable for work.
what happend?
xorg was upgraded to 7.5, although the used nvidia proprietary driver
(from the debian repos!) is not yet functional with the new version.
nvidia-glx is available, the necessary kernel module/source package not
-- therefore nvidia-glx is not installable.
no warning of any kind appeared, pointing out the possible breakage.
i'd really appreciate a more intelligent depency check in the lines of:
- what driver is currently used (xorg.conf)? if there's no xorg.conf,
most likely the default xorg driver, determined by xorg itself is used
-- and with a new release, the driver will be available automatically.
if there's an xorg.conf and the xorg.conf specifies a driver, it should
be easy to check for a package of that driver.
- is it compatible with the new Xorg package?
- if no: is there an installable newer, compatible package for that
driver available?
if the answer to one of the last two questions is "no", at least a
dialog pointing out the issue and asking for a decision should appear.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xorg depends on:
ii konsole [x-terminal-emulator] 4:4.3.4-1 X terminal emulator for KDE 4
ii libgl1-mesa-dri 7.6.1-1 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.6.1-1 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglu1-mesa 7.6.1-1 The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii x11-apps 7.5+1 X applications
ii x11-session-utils 7.5+1 X session utilities
ii x11-utils 7.5+1 X11 utilities
ii x11-xfs-utils 7.4+1 X font server utilities
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.5+1 X11 XKB utilities
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.5+1 X server utilities
ii xauth 1:1.0.4-1 X authentication utility
ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.1 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.1 75 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.1 standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.1-1 scalable fonts for X
ii xfonts-utils 1:7.5+2 X Window System font utility progr
ii xinit 1.2.0-1 X server initialisation tool
ii xkb-data 1.7-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii xorg-docs-core 1:1.5-1 Core documentation for the X.org X
pn xserver-xorg <none> (no description available)
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 253-1 X terminal emulator
xorg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages xorg suggests:
pn xorg-docs <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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