[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#594737: Bug#594737: libgl1-nvidia-alternatives: Three NVIDIA packages can not be configured.

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:

> Problem is if there is some libGL.so.1 not owned by any package pointing
> to something else than libGL.so.1.2 - after diverting that file it
> becomes a dangling symlink which is not a valid target for an
> alternative. I already committed some validation for the diverted
> libGL.so.1 to fix 594416 which was a similar problem:
> * if libGL.so.1 is not owned by any package or pointing to something
> else than libGL.so.1.2, it gets removed
> * if a diverted libGL.so.1.2 exists and a diverted libGL.so.1 is
> missing, the diverted link is recreated

> That should cover the majority of cases.

Oh!  I thought the problem had a much larger scope.  That's a much more
limited problem, and indeed, the approach you're taking sounds great.

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