New link: Debian Transitions

[melmarker]

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

[dibl]

Good information -- thanks!  All my systems will be waiting and watching -- I don't have time to fix broken video this week.

[GoinEasy9]

For me it's waiting time also:   
   

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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.

[melmarker]

hmm - dunno which packages really needed on your systems mach64 and r128 can be safely removed on modern systems

[towo]

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.

[GoinEasy9]

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.

[KrunchTime]

Thank you for the link, melmarker.  I've added it to my bookmarks database.  Good info to have when using Debian Unstable.