[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#596843: Bug#596843: unable to purge after replacing nvidia-glx with nvidia-glx-legacy

[Marvin Renich]

* Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> [100914 13:09]:
> Yeah, unfortunately this is a bug in the old nvidia-glx, which makes it
> rather hard to fix.  It was incorrectly trying to clean up diversions on
> postrm purge as well.  I'm not sure there's any good way to fix this
> retroactively.
> 
> If you'd upgraded nvidia-glx before installing the new legacy packages,
> the right thing would have happened, but I realize that's very inobvious
> going in.

Understood.  After removing it, I didn't remember which version I had
installed, so couldn't set the appropriate version number, and didn't
know if a newer version would fix it.  Reportbug said there were no
outstanding bugs on the package, so I went ahead and filed the bug.

Thanks for your (and all the Debian NVIDIA maintainers') work on this.

...Marvin