[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#585433: Bug#585433: New versions should depend on xorg-video-abi-8.0 also

[Patrick Matthäi]

Am 29.11.2010 22:44, schrieb Vedran Furač:
> On 29.11.2010 09:14, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
>
>> Am 28.11.2010 23:40, schrieb Vedran Furač:
>>> New fglrx version supports Xorg server 1.9 from experimental but it's
>>> uninstallable because of depends on xorg-video-abi-6.0 only.
>>
>> Yes, because it is meant for the Xorg release for squeeze. If Squeeze
>> has been release I will switch on xorg 1.9.
>
> But packages uploaded to experimental are not intended to directly end
> up in squeeze. You can put version for squeeze in unstable and have
> experimental fglrx packages depend on experimental xorg versions. That's
> why we have experimental, right?
>

But it may happen that it is needed at the end for squeeze. The upload 
is meant for wider testing without disrupting the fglrx-driver release 
process for Squeeze.
Experimental is a special tree in Debian (also not a full one), packages 
located there don't have to depend on other experimental stuff.