Re: sid dist-upgrade will remove Xorg and hold back replacement

2013-10-06 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 10:21:04AM +0530, Kailash wrote: On Sunday 06 October 2013 10:01 AM, Joel Roth wrote: xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3

Re: sid dist-upgrade will remove Xorg and hold back replacement

2013-10-06 Thread Joe
On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 21:07:07 -1000 Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 10:21:04AM +0530, Kailash wrote: On Sunday 06 October 2013 10:01 AM, Joel Roth wrote: xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-i128

Re: sid dist-upgrade will remove Xorg and hold back replacement

2013-10-06 Thread Joel Roth
Joe wrote: Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: As often happens, I'd fallen behind on upgrading lately, and had some catching up to do. I have three sids, one of which is upgraded almost daily, the others in half-gigabyte chunks and with a certain amount of hope. It *is* sid, after all.

Re: sid dist-upgrade will remove Xorg and hold back replacement

2013-10-06 Thread Jochen Spieker
Joel Roth: As often happens, I'd fallen behind on upgrading lately, and had some catching up to do. My experience is that sid is much smoother when upgrades are performed very often, at least once a week. In your situation I would have checked whether the video driver that I actually use

Re: sid dist-upgrade will remove Xorg and hold back replacement

2013-10-06 Thread Joe
On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 23:08:39 -1000 Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: Joe wrote: Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: As often happens, I'd fallen behind on upgrading lately, and had some catching up to do. I have three sids, one of which is upgraded almost daily, the others in

sid dist-upgrade will remove Xorg and hold back replacement

2013-10-05 Thread Joel Roth
Greetings wise admins, apt-get upgrade went fine, however dist-upgrade looks ready to remove a lot of Xorg packages while holding back upgrades. What is the appropriate solution here, just to wait? Obviously I don't want to lose X and other important libraries. Details follow. Thanks for any

Re: sid dist-upgrade will remove Xorg and hold back replacement

2013-10-05 Thread Kailash
On Sunday 06 October 2013 10:01 AM, Joel Roth wrote: xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-sis