xorg needs to be updated to allow quantal xserver stack to be installed

Hello Maarten, or anyone else affected,

Accepted xorg into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/1:7.6+12ubuntu2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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This bug was fixed in the package xorg - 1:7.6+12ubuntu2

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xorg (1:7.6+12ubuntu2) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Update package to enable support for quantal backport stack (LP: #1095686)
  * Add xserver-xorg-lts-precise which can be installed to rollback from renamed stack
    - depends on unrenamed xserver-xorg, recommends unrenamed versions of packages
  * Allow xserver-xorg-renamed to satisfy xorg's xserver-xorg dependency
  * Require unrenamed versions of packages in xserver-xorg
  * Add conflicts/replaces in xserver-xorg to xorg-renamed-package,
    and provide xserver-xorg-renamed
 -- Maarten Lankhorst <email address hidden> Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00:43 +0100

How does one use or apply this fix?

AIUI this is the same problem described here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/287797/xserver-xorg-lts-quantal-will-remove-many-packages

I have installed the xserver-xorg-lts-precise metapackage but this has not installed anything else as I am currently running the Precise X stack.

The above seems not to be a fix. AFAICS, what it does is conveniently allow one to /recover/ from the problem -- it does not prevent the installation of the Quantal X stack from removing loads of necessary components, it just makes it easier to revert back from the Quantal X stack to the Precise X stack.

Do I understand correctly? If so, it is not a fix. It does not enable one to upgrade an installed 12.04 or 12.04-1 system to 12.04-2, i.e. install the 12.10 versions of X.org. /That/ is the bug that is really being reported here AIUI.