[wplug] dist-upgrade on Debian Etch, XFree86 -> x.org

[Rick Reynolds]

Christopher DeMarco wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:09:26PM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
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>>Have any other Debian users on this list running Etch done a
>>dist-upgrade recently?  Sometime (within the last month, maybe ???) 
>>they've moved the switch-over to x.org into the testing branch.
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>I'm running Etch now that it's "testing".  Where is xorg?  
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>Migrating --> xorg has been on my to-do list ever since I switched
>back from Gentoo (bleeding edge was fun but I ran out of Insta-Clot);
>however Real Work has been eating my calendar.  How's this process
>supposed to work - pinning xorg in my apt.conf, or...?
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Well, I'm no expert, but it seems that the x.org stuff is now "official" 
in the testing branch.  If you do an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' your setup 
should be upgraded to use x.org instead of XFree86.  But as I indicated, 
it wasn't quite as simple as a single command for me.

Still, it went remarkably smoothly.

Thanks,
Rick Reynolds
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