Beware, anyone that might be using Maverick, things are about to get interesting!<div> </div><div> - Anthony Hook <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christopher James Halse Rogers <<a href="mailto:raof@ubuntu.com">raof@ubuntu.com</a>> Date: Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:00 PM Subject: Upcoming X breakage To: ubuntu-devel-discuss <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Cc: ubuntu-x <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-x@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-x@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Summary for the impatient: ******************************************************************** A new X server is about to be uploaded which requires all the drivers to be rebuilt. Be careful when upgrading in the next few days. ******************************************************************** So far in Maverick X has been a relatively sedentary beast, not much changed from Lucid. It's time for X to get a bit more interesting… We're going to be merging the new 1.8 X server and associated drivers from Debian over the next couple of days. This server has a new input and video ABI, which means existing driver packages will break. The server needs to be uploaded first so the new drivers build against the correct ABI, which means that there will be a period where safe upgrades will have held-back packages. The dependencies should ensure that you won't accidentally get a non-working combination of Xserver and drivers, but be careful if an upgrade wants to remove X packages. There will be another X transition later in the Maverick cycle when we switch to X server 1.9. I'll send out a similar notice then, too. Happy testing! -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </div> </div>