Bug#891613: steam: Steam update suddenly depends on full nvidia graphic support regardless of equipment

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Package: steam
Version: 1.0.0.54-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

My system uses AMD graphics and while X installs a variety of other drivers, it
is not that demanding of storage. Steam only adds nvidia support, but with the
new edition it *requires* nvidia support whether needed or not.

apt install steam
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  glx-alternative-mesa glx-alternative-nvidia glx-diversions libegl-nvidia0
libegl-nvidia0:i386 libegl1:i386 libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx:i386 libgles-
nvidia2:i386 libgles2:i386 libglx-nvidia0 libglx-nvidia0:i386 libnvidia-
cfg1:i386 libnvidia-egl-wayland1 libnvidia-egl-wayland1:i386 libnvidia-eglcore
libnvidia-eglcore:i386 libnvidia-glcore libnvidia-glcore:i386 libopengl0:i386
libvulkan1:i386 libwayland-client0:i386 libwayland-server0:i386 nvidia-
alternative nvidia-driver-libs:i386 nvidia-driver-libs-i386:i386 nvidia-egl-
common nvidia-egl-icd:i386 nvidia-egl-wayland-common nvidia-egl-wayland-
icd:i386 nvidia-installer-cleanup nvidia-legacy-check nvidia-vulkan-common
nvidia-vulkan-icd nvidia-vulkan-icd:i386 update-glx
Suggested packages:
  nvidia-driver vulkan-utils vulkan-utils:i386 steam-devices:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  glx-alternative-mesa glx-alternative-nvidia glx-diversions libegl-nvidia0
libegl-nvidia0:i386 libegl1:i386 libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx:i386 libgles-
nvidia2:i386 libgles2:i386 libglx-nvidia0 libglx-nvidia0:i386 libnvidia-
cfg1:i386 libnvidia-egl-wayland1 libnvidia-egl-wayland1:i386 libnvidia-eglcore
libnvidia-eglcore:i386 libnvidia-glcore libnvidia-glcore:i386 libopengl0:i386
libvulkan1:i386 libwayland-client0:i386 libwayland-server0:i386 nvidia-
alternative nvidia-driver-libs:i386 nvidia-driver-libs-i386:i386 nvidia-egl-
common nvidia-egl-icd:i386 nvidia-egl-wayland-common nvidia-egl-wayland-
icd:i386 nvidia-installer-cleanup nvidia-legacy-check nvidia-vulkan-common
nvidia-vulkan-icd nvidia-vulkan-icd:i386 update-glx
The following packages will be upgraded:
  steam:i386
1 upgraded, 35 newly installed, 0 to remove and 43 not upgraded.
Need to get 33.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 134 MB of additional disk space will be used.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages steam depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]             1.5.65
ii  libc6                             2.26-6
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri                   17.3.5-1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx                   17.3.5-1
ii  libgpg-error0                     1.27-6
ii  libstdc++6                        8-20180218-1
ii  libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 [libtxc-dxtn0]  0~git20131104-1.1
ii  libudev1                          237-3
ii  libx11-6                          2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxinerama1                      2:1.1.3-1+b3
ii  xz-utils                          5.2.2-1.3

Versions of packages steam recommends:
ii  fonts-liberation                      1:1.07.4-5
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.26.2-3
ii  libxss1                               1:1.2.2-1+b2
ii  pterm [x-terminal-emulator]           0.70-1
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           331-1
ii  zenity                                3.27.90-1

Versions of packages steam suggests:
pn  steam-devices  <none>

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