[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#570390: Bug#570390: Breaks nvidia-libvdpau, should recommend nvidia-libvdpau1

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thursday 18 February 2010 09:44:44 Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Package: nvidia-glx
>> Version: 190.53-2
>> Severity: important
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> after updating nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source mplayer stoped
>> working with vdpau. The problem is that nvidia-libvdpau seems
>> incompatible to nvidia-glx (not surprising). What is needed is
>> nvidia-libvdpau1 which is 190.xxx.
>> 
>> This should be reflected in the package relationships in the form of a
>> Breaks. I think nvidia-glx should also recommend nvidia-libvdpau1 so
>> that it gets installed by default when nvidia-glx is installed.
>> 
>> MfG
>> 	Goswin
>
> The proposed solution will cause problems for those using regular libvdpau1. A 
> better solution I think would be for nvidia-libvdpau1 to also Provides
> nvidia-libvdpau.

That doesn't really change anything. The break is still needed and a
recommends would still be usefull.

What kind of problems do you mean? A recommends dos not need to be
installed so everyone is free to use the regular libvdpau1 instead. Also
everyone is free to install nvidia-libvdpau1 even without recommends so
that has to work already. I don't see a problem there.


An alternative would be to recommend libvdpau1 and have nvidia-libvdpau1
provide that as well. Maybe you ment that.

MfG
        Goswin