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

[Ralf Jung]

Hi,

>> 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?
Current unstable and sid. Guillem is aware of the issue (as can be seen
in the bugreport http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684776
). I'll ping him in the bugreport.

>> 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.
I only recently noticed the 304 drivers already migrated to Wheezy, so
it's just as broken as Sid now (I had installed the sid drivers before
migration already). Also I was not aware of your NMU unblock request,
thanks for the pointer.
I'm not insisting on an NMU if there's an alternative, I'd just be glad
to prevent this regression from happening in Wheezy, and hope to help
achieving that.
Do you consider the dpkg bug a blocker for fixing this in Wheezy?

Kind regards,
Ralf