Bug#618291: nvidia-glx is uninstallable due to ABI version

[Russ Allbery]

forcemerge 612956 618291
thanks

Tom Epperly <tomepperly at comcast.net> writes:

> faerun:/home/tepperly# apt-get -t experimental install nvidia-glx
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:

> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  nvidia-glx : Depends: xorg-video-abi-8.0 but it is not installable or
>                        xorg-video-abi-6.0 but it is not installable or
>                        xserver-xorg-core (< 2:1.7.7) but 2:1.9.4.901-1 is to be installed
> E: Broken packages

Yup, the prerequisite for the new version is waiting in NEW.  As soon as
it's accepted, we'll get all the packages updated.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>