On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 21:17 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Thirdly, I don't think users can reasonnably expect the drivers packages > > to depend on the server. > > Again, the drivers are useless without the server. If that's not the > definition of 'Depends', then I don't know what is. Also, X.Org 7.1 > breaks the video driver ABI, so new drivers won't work with old servers > and vice versa.
xserver-xorg-dev installs a file called serverabiver for exactly this reason, so drivers can version their dependencies. This is one detail I didn't get around to implementing in the drivers, but that's why serverabiver is there ...
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