Bug#478887: libcm-dev: Should build-dep on libgl-dev not xlibmesa-gl-dev
Len Sorensen
lennartsorensen at ruggedcom.com
Thu May 1 16:05:06 UTC 2008
Package: libcm-dev
Version: 0.1.1-3
Severity: normal
A number of packages provide opengl header files, not just MESA, so the
correct target to depend on is libgl-dev not xlibmesa-gl-dev. By
depending on xlibmesa-gl-dev any user with the nvidia-glx package
installed is unable to use libcm-dev since the nvidia-glx-dev package is
required when nvidia-glx is installed to compile opengl, while
xlibmesa-gl-dev doesn't work while nvidia-glx is installed (since it has
to divert the mesa libraries of the same name).
Both nvidia-glx-dev and xlibmesa-gl-dev provide libgl-dev and the
majority of applications that use opengl already build-dep on libgl-dev.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libcm-dev depends on:
ii libcm7 0.1.1-3 Support code for compositing manag
ii libgl1-mesa-dev 7.0.3-1 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglib2.0-dev 2.16.3-2 Development files for the GLib lib
ii libglu1-mesa-dev 7.0.3-1 The OpenGL utility library -- deve
ii libx11-dev 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library (developme
ii libxcomposite-dev 1:0.4.0-1 X11 Composite extension library (d
ii libxdamage-dev 1:1.1.1-3 X11 damaged region extension libra
ii libxext-dev 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extensions libra
ii libxtst-dev 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Record extension library (deve
libcm-dev recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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