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

[Christian Weeks]

On 07/04/13 01:11 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2013-04-07 18:58, Christian Weeks wrote:
>> OK. That's interesting. This is just the update from xorg, built a
>> couple of months ago to get multiarch gnome working (because of the
>> wayland dep added in gnome 3.6 - the version of wayland you list is not
>> multiarch). It's a straight copy of pkg-mesa from the subversion, built
>> in a pbuilder.
> and having a bad version number that looks like an official Debian package
Sorry about that. It's because I try and pbuild exactly what's in the 
git. (Not subversion like I said before- this is all from the pkg-xorg 
sub projects- wayland and mesa and, with the recent updates, now libdrm 
too *sigh*).
>> I would assume this will affect all future versions from
>> there too, including the one that will (inevitably) finally hit
>> experimental/unstable. Thanks for that info. I guess I'll have to look
>> into why this linking was lost in their subversion. *sigh*.
> probably an intentional library rename done by upstream
>
> you'll have to divert libGL.so.1.2.0 to move it away from
> /usr/lib/<triplet>, otherwise ldconfig (which is run from many
> maintainer scripts - so nearly every packaging operation "breaks" the
> setup) will always recreate (and overwrite) the libGL.so.1 link
Ah, yes, OK, that's the guilty party here then I guess. I'll see what I 
can come up with and share it here. No doubt others are or will soon be 
in the same boat.

Christian