missing conflict against xserver-xorg-driver-ati

This bug was fixed in the package xserver-xorg-video-ati - 1:6.9.0-1ubuntu3

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xserver-xorg-video-ati (1:6.9.0-1ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Add missing conflicts/replaces of xserver-xorg-driver-ati
    to xserver-xorg-video-ati and xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
    Closes LP: #247681.

 -- Stefan Potyra <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:37:03 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package xserver-xorg-video-r128 - 6.8.0-1ubuntu1

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xserver-xorg-video-r128 (6.8.0-1ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/control: add conflicts/replaces against xserver-xorg-driver-ati
    for xserver-xorg-video-r128. Closes LP: #247681.

 -- Stefan Potyra <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:06:06 +0200

What were you dist-upgrading from, that needed this?

<tormod> do we have -driver-ati in any supported release?
<bryce_> maybe like dapper or something
 we don't ship it any longer
<tormod> yes, dapper which is 5 years LTS...
 5 years on server that is? without X?
<jcristau> but aiui upgrades from dapper need to go through hardy, so they'd drop that package at that point
 intrepid doesn't have to care
<tormod> jcristau: right

So it doesn't sound like this change is actually needed, although I've carried the change forward into the new -ati.

hm... I'm not entirely sure but I dist-upgraded either from hardy or from an earlier intrepid stage.

><jcristau> but aiui upgrades from dapper need to go through hardy, so they'd drop that package at that point intrepid doesn't have to care

and there's the flaw in the logic: Removing a package from the archive won't automatically remove it from a users system. As it looks, nothing ever replaced/conflicted against the -driver-* packages so these were simply left around on my system up to intrepid.

P.S.: I assume that it's safe to drop the conflicts after intrepid is released though.

Cheers,
   Stefan.

I've just updated from hadry to intrepid and I have this error: What can I do? I'm upset!!!

/var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-video-r128_6.8.0-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-video-mach64_6.8.0-1build2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

What is the exact error message that you got? (unfortunately the interesting details are not part of the output you've pasted).

I guess you could try
sudo apt-get -f install
to reproduce the error message.