I agree you are entirely right on principle; I thought the appearance of xserver 1.11 in PPAs presaged its appearance in Oneiric, but you set me straight on that. There would be no sense having packages in the same repository break one another. Anyone's Oneiric which failed to boot after an apt-get dist-upgrade (which is probably everybody's Oneiric, at least the Alphas) would attest to the wisdom of that.
What I did instead is to install two packages from Debian Sid, _*virtualbox-guest-x11_4.1.2-dfsg-1+b1*/**/_, which survives the ABI bump quite nicely (and, only because they are twins) *_/virtualbox-guest-utils_4.1.2-dfsg-1+b1/_.* Although I hate to install Debian packages on Ubuntu, or vise versa, I sometimes feel I have no choice. I don't think xorg-edgers particularly wants to become a VirtualBox PPA. My HID mouse still works; that's all I can say. I'm sorry if you're more accustomed to conversing with people who actually know what they're talking about, but I'm a relative newcomer, and I only get to play around in virtual sandboxes for the hour or so a day I have to myself. On 9/13/2011 9:50 AM, Felix Geyer wrote: > Looks like the mouse driver is indeed broken with xserver 1.11 (you could > have at least included a link to the upstream bug report). > Still, I fail to see the point of this bug report since Ubuntu doesn't use > that version for the next release and we are not doing upstream development. > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/848622 Title: X.Org ABI Bump will break virtualbox-guest-X11 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/848622/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
