Re: bad ABI version?

2015-05-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > Sven Hartge wrote: >> - how to pin pacakges to a specific version > I am not a fan of pinning. Generally people try to use it to keep a > mixed system. Pinning in this context was not meant to have a mixed system but as a method to keep a specific version of a package out o

Re: bad ABI version?

2015-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Hartge wrote: > If you know, how to pull yourself out of the mud, are able to file bug > reports, read bug reports und know how to use apt-listchanges and > apt-listbugs, _then_ you can use Sid. (Been doing that for over 15 years > myself.) (Chuckle.) I'm good to go. Specifically the reason

Re: bad ABI version?

2015-05-07 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > Sven Hartge wrote: >> My Magic Crystal Ball of Bug Seeing™ tells me, your system is dead >> but does not realize that fact. Your system will fall back to >> llvmpipe and seem to work fine (but a bit slow) but there will be >> problems and programms might segfault. (#756236 and

Re: bad ABI version?

2015-05-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Joachim wrote: > For the reference, this happened by accident, the new xserver version > was meant to to go to experimental but ended up in unstable[1]. > 1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2015/05/msg00092.html Ah the joys of living on Unstable. :-) > The reason being that the binNMU of

Re: bad ABI version?

2015-05-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2015-05-06 23:22 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > Dale Harris wrote: >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >> xserver-xorg-video-intel : Depends: xorg-video-abi-18 >> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > xorg-video-abi-18 is provided by xserver-xorg-core=2:

Re: bad ABI version?

2015-05-06 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > But perhaps that is because it maybe happened recently and I haven't > logged out for a while. My system could be dead and doesn't know it > yet. Meaning that I am going to be logging out this evening and > testing carefully. I have this Intel graphics adapter. My Magic Cr

Re: bad ABI version?

2015-05-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Dale Harris wrote: > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > xserver-xorg-video-intel : Depends: xorg-video-abi-18 > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. xorg-video-abi-18 is provided by xserver-xorg-core=2:1.16.4-1 however that has been replaced in Sid by xser

bad ABI version?

2015-05-05 Thread Dale Harris
I'm running sid. I can't currently install xserver-xorg-video-intel. I get: # apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-video-intel Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested a