[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#558393: Please liberate the unstable dependencies to make the packacke installable on stable

[Russ Allbery]

tags 558393 wontfix
thanks

Joachim Zobel <jzobel at heute-morgen.de> writes:

> This would be consistent with nvidia-glx. It would be helpful for people
> who need to install nvidia-glx from sid to use never nvidia cards for
> gaming with wine.

> It should also be possible without problems.

The dependency is due to the transition from /emul/ia32-linux to /lib32
that happened during the squeeze development cycle.  This was something of
a mess and tends to be fragile, and I don't think it's a good idea to
override the shlibs file of ia32-libs to allow for an earlier dependency.
I suspect that could break in all sorts of interesting ways, and given the
number of other issues with the package that need to be sorted out, I
don't think this is some place where we have resources to work through the
implications.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>