Bug#686489: [libgl1-nvidia-alternatives] can't install libgl1-nvidia-alternatives:i386

[Russ Allbery]

Guy Roussin <guy.roussin at teledetection.fr> writes:

> I can't install libgl1-nvidia-alternatives:i386 on my debian sid (amd64)

> $ sudo aptitude install libgl1-nvidia-alternatives:i386
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   libgl1-nvidia-alternatives:i386{b}
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 87.6 kB of archives. After unpacking 94.2 kB will be used.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  libgl1-nvidia-alternatives : Conflicts: libgl1-nvidia-alternatives:i386
> but 304.37-1 is to be installed.
>  libgl1-nvidia-alternatives:i386 : Conflicts: libgl1-nvidia-alternatives
> but 304.37-1 is installed.

libgl1-nvidia-alternatives isn't tagged for multiarch and probably needs
to be, at least so long as nvidia-alternative depends on it.  However,
Andreas was working on this and doubtless knows more about it than I do
and should take a look at it before we decide what to do.  (I'm a little
confused as to why nvidia-alternative depends on it when the package long
description of libgl1-nvidia-alternatives says that it's a transitional
package -- hmm, maybe because we need its maintainer scripts to be updated
so as not to potentially conflict with what glx-alternative-nvidia does
later.)

glx-alternative-nvidia, which is the current version, is tagged
Multi-Arch: foreign.  I suspect that's the correct thing to do for
libgl1-nvidia-alternatives as well.

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