Bug#704914: glx-alternatives: The libGL diversion does not work

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: reassign -1 glx-diversions 0.2.90
Control: tag -1 moreinfo

On 2013-04-07 17:43, Christian Weeks wrote:
> There is a severe problem with the libGL diversion strategy as exists at
> present.
> 
> The desktop is rendered inoperable after any change in the packaging, due to
> the diversion in glx-diversions
> being replaced by the actual lib from libgl1-mesa-glx. This is because gnome-
> session-bin and other "current"
> parts of the gnome desktop have a hardcoded dependency on libgl1-mesa-glx (or
> the virtual libgl1).

I'm sorry, but what exactly is the problem you experienced?

> The only fix is to re-run "update-alternatives --configure glx", which re-
> replaces the symlink diversion
> however, if gnome is about to progress beyond experimental, it is likely this
> is about to become a critical
> pain point.

So what is broken before this command and fixed afterwards?

> # dpkg --remove libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64

and why would you want to do that?


Unfortunately you reported this against the source package, so no
scripts were run that could collect additional information.
I've reassigned this bug to the glx-diversions package, please run
  reportbug -N 704914
on the *broken* system, that should collect some helpful information.


Andreas