Bug#861683: Install xserver-xorg-legacy by default for stretch
Source: xorg
Version: 1:7.7+18
Severity: serious
With virtualbox-dkms gone for stretch, trying to install GNOME inside
Virtualbox will lead to gdm failing to start, as it tries to run Xorg as
unprivileged user. This requires a KMS compatible driver though.
Same is true for users of startx. They need the suid wrapper provided by
xserver-xorg-legacy in such a case.
Not having the Xorg.wrap suid wrapper is a worthwile goal, but I guess
we are not quite there yet, as there are still to many popular cases
where it's needed.
I would thus like to see xserver-xorg-legacy added as a Recommends to
one of the xorg packages.
This means it would be installed on upgrades and new installations but
users with a KMS compatible driver can uninstall it.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64
(x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages xserver-xorg depends on:
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.7+3+b1
ii xkb-data 2.19-1
ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.3-1
ii xserver-xorg-input-all 1:7.7+18
ii xserver-xorg-input-evdev [xorg-driver-input] 1:2.10.5-1
ii xserver-xorg-input-libinput [xorg-driver-input] 0.23.0-2
ii xserver-xorg-input-wacom [xorg-driver-input] 0.34.0-1
ii xserver-xorg-video-all 1:7.7+18
ii xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu [xorg-driver-video] 1.2.0-1+b1
ii xserver-xorg-video-ati [xorg-driver-video] 1:7.8.0-1+b1
ii xserver-xorg-video-fbdev [xorg-driver-video] 1:0.4.4-1+b5
ii xserver-xorg-video-nouveau [xorg-driver-video] 1:1.0.13-3
ii xserver-xorg-video-radeon [xorg-driver-video] 1:7.8.0-1+b1
ii xserver-xorg-video-vesa [xorg-driver-video] 1:2.3.4-1+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-vmware [xorg-driver-video] 1:13.2.1-1+b1
Versions of packages xserver-xorg recommends:
ii libgl1-mesa-dri 13.0.6-1+b2
-- no debconf information
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