Bug#687373: pre-approve unblock: libxvmc/1.0.7-1.1

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock

Dear release managers,

please approve the upload of a NMU of libxvmc that converts the package
to multiarch for inclusion in wheezy, fixing #640499. Of course the
maintainers are welcome to do such an upload themselves.

The patch has been around for a year, has gotten more testing recently
and Ralf Jung has confirmed that it is OK to have shared conffiles in
M-A: same packages.

I consider adding multiarch support to libxvmc1 as important, as
this is currently a regression from squeeze: users of the non-free
Nvidia drivers on amd64 are unable to get OpenGL acceleration in 32-bit
applications. Most often this is observed in 32-bit wine, which seems to
be a frequent use case considering the number of bug reports and
commenters:
  #676723: libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386: Please downgrad libxvmc dependency to
  Recommends,
  #685054: breaks wine (32-bit) OpenGL support on amd64,
  #686033: libgl1-nvidia-glx: 304.37-1 libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 removes
  libgl1-nvidia-glx (amd64) and Nvidia driver

Also, without libxvmc1:i386 we can't give working instructions for
replacing the obsolete *nvidia*-ia32 packages (which need to become
transitional due to the phasing out of the monolithic ia32-libs) by
their multiarchified variants.

If I get an OK that a package with the attached nmudiff 
  5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
is fine for wheezy, I'll go looking for a sponsor (unless the
maintainers object).


Andreas

unblock libxvmc/1.0.7-1.1
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