Bug#688953: freeze-exception: nvidia-graphics-drivers/304.48-3 - libgl1-nvidia-glx package split

[Andreas Beckmann]

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

Please approve the following changes for package
nvidia-graphics-drivers:

As discussed in #688861 (freeze exception for libxvmc) yesterday, there
is another possibility to address the missing multiarchification of
libxvmc1: if we split the libgl1-nvidia-glx package and move one library
to a new libxvmcnvidia1 library we can move the dependency on
libxvmc1 to that new package and libgl1-nvidia-glx will have its
dependencies satisfied for installing libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 along with
libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64.

A preliminary debdiff is attached, I probably need to tighten the
dependencies on the new package a bit ...

Since we are currently planning a trip through NEW, there are a few more
thing I'd like to ask about:

* Adding a new "nvidia-cuda-proxy" binary package. There are some binaries
added by NVIDIA added in the 304 series that don't fit into any existing
package (and therefore are not packaged, yet). I'd like to add a new
leaf package that ships these new binaries, so that we don't ship less
than provided in the upstream blob - even though there are no users for
this new feature today, it might adopt users over time. And it's
intended to work with the 304 driver we currently have in wheezy.

* turning the virtual packages
    nvidia-vdpau-driver-i386
    libcuda1-i386 (*)
    libnvidia-compiler-i386
    nvidia-opencl-icd-i386 (*)
    nvidia-libopencl1-i386
    libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386 (*) (***)
into real packages with 
    Architecture: i386
    Multi-Arch: foreign
(or at least the ones marked with (*) or even onty the (***) one) to
provide a better migration path for the old -ia32 packages.
This would be similar to ia32-libs, except that the
*-ia32:amd64 packages will only recommend the new*-i386:i386 packages.


Andreas
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