There are some ongoing transitions in debian - so i think it make sense to link the debian transition tracker to our forum - most popular transition right now should be https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/xserver1.17.html :)
Good information -- thanks! All my systems will be waiting and watching -- I don't have time to fix broken video this week.
For me it's waiting time also:
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-r128
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libproj9 linux-headers-4.0.1-towo.2-siduction-amd64 linux-image-4.0.1-towo.2-siduction-amd64
The following packages will be upgraded:
btrfs-tools console-setup console-setup-linux cpp-4.9 curl fonts-mathjax g++-4.9 gcc-4.9 gcc-4.9-base gcc-5-base
intltool-debian keyboard-configuration libasan1 libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libatomic1 libatspi2.0-0 libcap-ng0
libcilkrts5 libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libdatrie1 libdjvulibre-text libdjvulibre21 libgcc-4.9-dev libgcc1
libgdal1h libgfortran3 libgnutls-deb0-28 libgnutls-openssl27 libgomp1 libio-socket-ssl-perl libitm1
libjs-mathjax liblsan0 libobjc4 libogdi3.2 libquadmath0 libreoffice-lightproof-en libspatialite5
libstdc++-4.9-dev libstdc++6 libtcl8.5 libtcl8.6 libtiff5 libtk8.5 libtk8.6 libtsan0 libubsan0 libzvbi-common
libzvbi0 linux-headers-siduction-amd64 linux-image-siduction-amd64 proj-data python-urllib3 scrot tcl8.5 tcl8.6
tk8.5 tk8.6 unace-nonfree unar xserver-common xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-mga
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware
70 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
hmm - dunno which packages really needed on your systems mach64 and r128 can be safely removed on modern systems
Problem is, xserver-xorg-video-ati depends on that drivers and without that package, xserver can't load radeon without xorg.conf on amd systems.
I use the proprietary nVidia drivers, so, I probably don't need any of those files to be removed, but, during the transition, any files to be removed will have me waiting.
Thank you for the link, melmarker. I've added it to my bookmarks database. Good info to have when using Debian Unstable.