[pkg-nvidia-devel] separate packages for libGL.* and nvidia_drv.so

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:

> I was thinking again about separating the nvidia Xorg driver from the
> nvidia GL libraries, here are some ideas for package reorganization. If
> there are no objections, I'm going to implement it in a few days.

> nvidia-libgl1${LEGACY}:
>  * new package
>  * only Recommends: nvidia-kernel${LEGACY}-12.34.56
>    (for virtual systems (e.g. jails) without an own kernel that can't
>     install a kernel module package but have the kernel module magically
>     available) #369316
>  * ships libGL.so.* (and the other *.so.* in /usr/lib)
>  * transition of the libGL.* diversions to this package is not too
>    difficult
>  * contains the trigger to create libGL.so
>  * we could try a Provides: libgl1 #389971

> nvidia-glx${LEGACY}:
>  * contains only the Xorg driver + glx module
>  * Depends: nvidia-kernel${LEGACY}-12.34.56 (as it is now)
>  * Depends: nvidia-libgl1${LEGACY} (to not change the current behaviour)

> nvidia-libgl1${LEGACY}-dev:
>  * renamed from nvidia-glx${LEGACY}-dev, with transitional packages in
>    place

> Eventually we could introduce nvidia-libgl1${LEGACY}-ia32, too, to be
> consistent (nvidia-glx-ia32 would become (nearly) empty in that case).

Hm, yes, I don't see anything wrong with that and it seems like a good
idea to me.

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