[Bug 1129409] Re: Nvidia and AMD graphics drivers should indicate whether they provide libcuda.so.1, libOpenCL.so.1, etc.

[Alberto Milone]

On 22-10-14 20:34:24, Joakim wrote:
> According to that page, it should be rated as high importance.
>
> * Has a severe impact on a small portion of Ubuntu users (estimated)
> Yes, all users who wants to use fglrx and wine.
> * A problem with an essential hardware component (disk controller, built-in networking, video card, keyboard, mouse)
> Yes, package conflict for the video card driver.
> * Prevents the application or any dependencies from functioning correctly at all
> Yes, both wine and fglrx.
> * Renders essential features or functionality of the application or dependencies broken or ineffective
> Yes, both wine and fglrx.
> * Impacts accessibility of a core application
> Yes, fglrx.
>
> You can't even get build-dep for wine.
>
> Nevertheless, fixing this bug should be done before the final release of
> Ubuntu 14.10. If it can not be fixed easily, it would be better to
> remove the conflicting dependency from wine. Only a few users would be
> effected and they can fix it themselves by installing the necessary
> packages manually.

The wine package lives in the universe repository, and this excludes it
from the essential and core packages (that usually live in main or
restricted).

The graphics driver provides core functionalities, wine does not. The
bug priority is right.

It was/is too late to fix this bug report for fglrx in 14.10, which also
depended on LP: #1382086 and LP: #1382091 (both fixed only a few hours
ago).  I'll have to fix this in 15.04 (the next development release)
first, only then will it be reasonable to backport the fix.

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  Nvidia and AMD graphics drivers should indicate whether they provide
  libcuda.so.1, libOpenCL.so.1, etc.

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