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Package: xserver-xorg-core
Version: 2:1.19.3-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

I use the modesetting driver provided by xserver-xorg-core for my Intel hardware.
Yet xserver-xorg insist on pulling in other video drivers due to
Depends: xserver-xorg-video-all | xorg-driver-video

xserver-xorg-core should have a
Provides: xserver-xorg-video
so unneeded drivers can be uninstalled


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages xserver-xorg-core depends on:
ii keyboard-configuration 1.166
ii libaudit1 1:2.7.7-1+b1
ii libbsd0 0.8.5-1
ii libc6 2.24-12
ii libdbus-1-3 1.10.20-1
ii libdrm2 2.4.81-2
ii libegl1-mesa 17.1.4-1
ii libepoxy0 1.3.1-3
ii libgbm1 17.1.4-1
ii libgcrypt20 1.7.8-2
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 17.1.4-1
ii libpciaccess0 0.13.4-1+b2
ii libpixman-1-0 0.34.0-1
ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b2
ii libsystemd0 233-10
ii libudev1 233-10
ii libxau6 1:1.0.8-1
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.2-3
ii libxfont2 1:2.0.1-3
ii libxshmfence1 1.2-1+b2
ii udev 233-10
ii xserver-common 2:1.19.3-2

Versions of packages xserver-xorg-core recommends:
ii libgl1-mesa-dri 17.1.4-1
ii libpam-systemd 233-10

Versions of packages xserver-xorg-core suggests:
ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.4+nmu1
ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.4+nmu1
ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.3-1.1

-- no debconf information

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index ccbefd65f..5f8203a5f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ Provides:
${videoabi},
${inputabi},
xserver-xorg-video-modesetting,
+ xorg-driver-video,
Description: Xorg X server - core server
The Xorg X server is an X server for several architectures and operating
systems, which is derived from the XFree86 4.x series of X servers.

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On 10/07/17 23:49, Michael Biebl wrote:

Package: xserver-xorg-core
Version: 2:1.19.3-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

I use the modesetting driver provided by xserver-xorg-core for my Intel hardware.
Yet xserver-xorg insist on pulling in other video drivers due to
Depends: xserver-xorg-video-all | xorg-driver-video

xserver-xorg-core should have a
Provides: xserver-xorg-video
so unneeded drivers can be uninstalled

This would be nice, but I fear this would cause new installs to not pull xserver-xorg-video-all. If that's so, maybe we could fix that by having the necessary task depend on xserver-xorg-video-all directly...

Emilio

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