Bug#676723: libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386: Please downgrad libxvmc dependency to Recommends

Andreas Beckmann debian at abeckmann.de
Sat Jun 9 08:17:33 UTC 2012


On 2012-06-09 09:20, Ralf Jung wrote:
> currently, libgl1-nvidia-glx can not be installed in a foreign architecture
> since it depends on libxvmc1, which has not yet been converted to
> multi-arch [1].

Let's get this fixed.

> Since the package does not actually depend on anything libxvmc does or provides,
> I suggest to downgrade the Depends: to a Recommends:

That dependency is generated by dh_shlibdeps, so some library *does*
depend on libxvmc1. Working around will be difficult.
Wontfix.

Andreas





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