Bug#739183: R: Bug#739183: spring: suggested package libtxc-dxtn0 is now recommended by libgl1-mesa-dri

[Fabio Pedretti]

>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: vcheng at debian.org
>Data: 17/02/2014 8.28
>A: "Markus Koschany"<apo at gambaru.de>
>Cc: <739183 at bugs.debian.org>
>Ogg: Bug#739183: spring: suggested package libtxc-dxtn0 is now recommended by 
libgl1-mesa-dri
>
>On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Markus Koschany <apo at gambaru.de> wrote:
>> Package: spring
>> Version: 96.0+dfsg-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>>
>> I have received a private e-mail about this issue. Just so that it
>> won't get lost, I'm quoting the original e-mail here as a reminder for
>> the next revision.
>>
>> "Hi, thanks for updating debian spring package!
>>
>> Can you remove the suggest of libtxc-dxtn0 ? It was already
>> recommended by libgl1-mesa-dri in the meantime, and it's useful only with 
mesa
>> drivers, not the proprietary ones. Also no other game needing it suggests 
it, since
>> it's already implied by mesa.
>
>libtxc-dxtn0 isn't even in Debian proper (patent-encumbered by an
>active patent, and thus only available on marillat's deb-multimedia
>repo); closest thing we have in Debian is libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0
>(src:s2tc), but I digress...spring shouldn't be directly suggesting
>either package.


libtxc-dxtn0 is a virtual package provided by libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0.

I am the original reporter, BTW.

Fabio