Bug#754828: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia: Installation broken in sid

[Brannon Klopfer]

Package: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After upgrade, nvidia drivers were unusable in X. Attempting to install
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia yielded:

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia : Depends: xorg-video-abi-15 but it is not
installable or
                                      xorg-video-abi-14 but it is not
installable or
                                      xorg-video-abi-13 but it is not
installable or
                                      xorg-video-abi-12 but it is not
installable or
                                      xorg-video-abi-11 but it is not
installable or
                                      xorg-video-abi-10 but it is not
installable or
                                      xorg-video-abi-8 but it is not
installable or
                                      xorg-video-abi-6.0 but it is not
installable
                             Depends: xserver-xorg-core (< 2:1.15.99) but
2:1.15.99.904-1 is to be installed
                             Recommends: nvidia-driver (>= 331.79) but it is
not going to be installed
                             Recommends: nvidia-vdpau-driver (>= 331.79) but it
is not going to be installed
                             Recommends: nvidia-kernel-dkms (= 331.79-1) or
                                         nvidia-kernel-331.79
                             Recommends: nvidia-settings (>= 331) but it is not
installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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I "fixed" this by uninstalling all nvidia packages, and used nvidia's own
installer to install the latest drivers, 340.24. My apologies if I filed this
bug under the wrong package.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-nvidia depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                                       1.5.53
ii  libc6                                                       2.19-7
pn  libgl1-nvidia-glx                                           <none>
pn  nvidia-alternative                                          <none>
pn  nvidia-installer-cleanup                                    <none>
pn  nvidia-support                                              <none>
pn  xorg-video-abi-15 | xorg-video-abi-14 | xorg-video-abi-13   <none>
ii  xserver-xorg-core                                           2:1.15.99.904-1

Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-nvidia recommends:
pn  nvidia-driver                              <none>
pn  nvidia-kernel-dkms | nvidia-kernel-337.19  <none>
pn  nvidia-settings                            <none>
pn  nvidia-vdpau-driver                        <none>

Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-nvidia suggests:
pn  nvidia-kernel-dkms | nvidia-kernel-source  <none>