On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 21:41 -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:37:23PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 23:09:28 +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > > > > > What is the status of this bug for Etch? > > > > Fixed in experimental I believe. > > > > > > The version from experimental is now in unstable, so closing this bug. > > > > > Except for the fact that the circular dependency has been readded recently: > > each driver depends on xserver-xorg-core, which depends on xserver-xorg, > > which depends on xserver-xorg-*-all, which depend on the drivers. > > That dependency on the drivers can be broken by having any one driver > installed, it merely depends on -all by default. In this sense, it behaves > exactly as before. And since it's vastly easier at present to separate the > xserver config scripts from the server itself, I'm willing to live with > this one circular dep since it fixes a real bug. afaik, we haven't seen any > actual problems with upgrades caused by these dependencies, so I'd rather > leave the bug fixed.
By that reasoning, the dependency on drivers could be moved back from xserver-xorg to xserver-xorg-core. Back to square one. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
