On 2011-02-19 00:44, Craig Sanders wrote: > more detail on xorg-video-abi-8.0 vs xorg-video-abi-8 ... > not sure if this bug belongs to nvidia-glx or xserver-xorg-core, but the > solution > requires co-ordination between the two packages.
This needs to be fixed in the nvidia packages, the new pre-release packages should fix this. > PS: why does nvidia-glx conflict with itself in the Conflicts: line > above? i know it's been in the package since at least 195.36.31 without > causing problems, but it seems an odd conflict to have. It's a packaging issue and generated by some variable substitutions - I want to use packaging scripts with minimal differences for the current and all the legacy packages to simplify merging changes. Package: self Provides: self Conflicts: self works fine and is quite common with "real" packages that are also "virtual" packages. > 'aptitude why-not nvidia-glx' says that that is the problem (it's wrong, > the problem is the missing dependancy xorg-video-abi-8.0). > > # aptitude why-not nvidia-glx > ih nvidia-glx Conflicts nvidia-glx Eventually you should report that as an aptitude bug. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org