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

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: retitle -1 does not divert libGL.so.1.2.0 from mesa 9.0.1-1

On 2013-04-07 18:26, Christian Weeks wrote:
> Before: (This is reset after almost any packaging change on the system):
> The link to libGL isn't a link to the diversions anymore. It is a link
> to somewhere else:
> # ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Apr  7 11:36
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2.0
> # ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2.0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 414328 Dec 29 22:24
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2.0
> # dpkg --search /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2.0
> libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2.0

This is not the Debian libgl1-mesa-glx.

That would contain
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2
which is properly diverted.

On 2013-04-07 18:30, Christian Weeks wrote:
> Versions of packages glx-diversions is related to:
> ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]                                   9.0.1-1

Exactly :-)

$ rmadison --arch amd64 libgl1-mesa-glx
 libgl1-mesa-glx | 7.7.1-5          | squeeze           | amd64
 libgl1-mesa-glx | 7.10.3-4~bpo60+1 | squeeze-backports | amd64
 libgl1-mesa-glx | 8.0.5-4          | wheezy            | amd64
 libgl1-mesa-glx | 8.0.5-4          | sid               | amd64

Andreas