[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#519792: nvidia-glx: Please create vdpau libraries packages.

[Vadim Solomin]

On Sunday 15 March 2009 11:37:43 you wrote:
> Package: nvidia-glx
> Version: 180.29-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> Would be nice to have a libvdpau1 and libvdpau-dev packages.
>
> The main problem, is if you want to link dynamically against libvdpau, you
> need to build-depends on nvidia-glx-dev but this package depends on
> nvidia-glx (and now the main problem) who dpends on nvidia-kernel-180.29,
> who doesn't exist in Debian, only legacy kernel module are packaged.
>
> Christian

Hi!

In the meantime, as a temporary workaround you could use equivs to create an 
empty dummy nvidia-kernel-x.x package just to satisfy build-depends.

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Vadim Solomin