Pre-approval for nvidia-graphics-drivers 195.36.31-5

[Julien Cristau]

On Sat, Oct  9, 2010 at 20:25:21 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Hello release team,
> 
> Further upgrade testing by Andreas uncovered a few issues with
> dependencies in the nvidia-graphics-drivers packages that I think are
> appropriate to fix for squeeze since they could lead to upgrade problems
> (particularly with partial upgrades).  Below is the changelog.  Is it okay
> for me to upload a new version of this package to unstable?
> 
Yes.

> The previous version has not yet propagated to testing due to ia32-libs,
> which from other discussion I think is going to need another upload of
> ia32-libs to resolve, so I don't believe this would delay propagation.
> 
> nvidia-graphics-drivers (195.36.31-5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
> 
>   [ Andreas Beckmann ]
>   * Drop Breaks: xserver-xorg-core (<< 2:1.6).
>     There is no file name conflict between /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 (from
>     NVIDIA) and /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so (only in
>     xserver-xorg-core << 2:1.6) that could cause the wrong library to be
>     loaded by NVIDIA's libgl.so.
>   * Change xserver dependency to 'xorg-video-abi-6.0 | xserver-xorg-core
>     (<< 2:1.7.7)' as the driver is supposed to work with older abi versions,
>     too.

We're not shipping older ABI versions in squeeze, though, so I don't
think this matters.  But OK.

>   * Add Pre-Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.9-18) to all packages handling files in
>     /usr/lib32.
>   * Restrict nvidia-opencl-common Recommends: nvidia-opencl-icd-ia32 to amd64.
>   * libgl1-nvidia-alternatives needs to Breaks: old nvidia-glx*-dev packages,
>     some were shipping a libGL.so symlink which may cause problems on partial
>     upgrades.
>   * libgl*-nvidia-alternatives* needs to Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15) for using
>     dpkg-divert --listpackage in the postinst script.
> 
>  -- Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de>  Sun, 26 Sep 2010 08:08:02 +0200
> 
Cheers,
Julien
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