[libgl1-nvidia-glx] not providing libgl1

Andreas Beckmann debian at abeckmann.de
Tue Jul 12 11:36:38 UTC 2011


On 2011-07-11 20:46, Diego Joss wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have noticed a discrepancy in the package libgl1-nvidia-glx. I hope
> this is not an error from my side.
> 
> In testing (wheezy), the package libgl1-nvidia-glx (version 275.09.07-1)
> for nvidia graphics cards does not contain a "Provides:" with "libgl1"
> (as with the package "libgl1-mesa-glx"), thus several dependencies are
> now broken (when using libgl1-nvidia-glx to provide the binary OpenGL
> libraries).

Nvidia-glx is currently uninstallable from testing (unless you downgrade
mesa and xorg to pre-multiarch versions). Please use the packages from
unstable.

Not providing libgl1 is intentional, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389971

Andreas



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