Bug#674952: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: fails to work properly without -ati

2012-05-30 Thread Maarten Lankhorst
Hey, Op 30-05-12 00:30, Yann Dirson schreef: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:45:45PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Even then, why this Depends of ati on all 3 drivers ? I can dpkg -r --force-depends both mach64 and r128, and ati+radeon does startup without complaining at all. Shouldn't this be

Bug#674952: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: fails to work properly without -ati

2012-05-30 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 08:33:47AM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: The current situation just makes some people (eg. me ;) break the dependency link that's the weakest to get rid of useless drivers, with the results described in my original report. What are you gaining? $ for f in $(dpkg

Bug#674952: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: fails to work properly without -ati

2012-05-30 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 23:32:58 +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: The current situation just makes some people (eg. me ;) break the dependency link that's the weakest to get rid of useless drivers, with the results described in my original report. That's good, then we can point and laugh. Cheers,

Bug#674952: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: fails to work properly without -ati

2012-05-29 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:02:14AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: The dependency in squeeze (and in other suites) is: ati→{mach64,r128,radeon} there's no: radeon→ati OK, my bad - surely some confusion on my side. But the result is, GLX is entirely disabled, and we can see a fail to

Bug#674952: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: fails to work properly without -ati

2012-05-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Yann Dirson ydir...@free.fr (29/05/2012): OK I understand that there is no absolute requirement for -ati, and thus a Depends is probably not a good idea for some users. But for the vast majority, who will want to use it, what about adding a note in package descriptions of {mach64,r128,radeon}

Bug#674952: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: fails to work properly without -ati

2012-05-29 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:45:45PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Even then, why this Depends of ati on all 3 drivers ? I can dpkg -r --force-depends both mach64 and r128, and ati+radeon does startup without complaining at all. Shouldn't this be downgraded to a Recommends as well ?