Bug#686033: libgl1-nvidia-glx: 304.37-1 libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386, removes libgl1-nvidia-glx (amd64) and Nvidia driver

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2012-09-23 16:03, Ralf Jung wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> with the 304 drivers in current unstable, this bug even means that 32bit
> apps get no acceleration at all since the ia32 packages have already
> been removed.
> 
> I can confirm that the patch by you, Andreas, is working fine. The
> problems with the conffile are caused by a bug in dpkg [1] and there are
> other packages triggering it, like libpam-modules.

Which dpkg versions are affected?

> Would it be
> appropriate for the NVidia packagers to do an NMU on libxvmc to fix this
> situation? Note that I am not speaking about Wheezy here, but about the
> current broken status of Sid.

I have a NMUdiff attached to
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=687373
with no response so far.

I'm *not* favoring a NMU of this if we can't fix it in wheezy.
I'm thinking about another solution ... for wheezy.


Andreas

PS: a NMU to experimental would be OK for me