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 wrote: > Joe wrote: > > Joel Roth 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 wi

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 w

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

2013-10-06 Thread Joel Roth
Joe wrote: > Joel Roth 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. Having more

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 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 xserver-xorg-vi

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

2013-10-05 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 xserver-xorg

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 h