Bug#864497: nvidia-driver should depend on libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx instead of libgl1-nvidia-glx by default

[Luca Boccassi]

On Fri, 2017-06-09 at 18:33 +0200, Julien Aubin wrote:
> Okay thanks. If it were possible in that case to remove the non gnlvd
> it
> could be fine

Nvidia itself said (or were saying until recently) that the glvnd stuff
was still experimental, so at least for Stretch we should leave the
non-glvnd stuff in. We can consider removing it for Buster IMHO.

> 2017-06-09 18:31 GMT+02:00 Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org>:
> 
> > On 2017-06-09 17:17, Julien Aubin wrote:
> > > Sooo... could you please either drop the non GLVND flavour, or
> > > make the
> > > GLVND
> > > flavour of the driver the default ?
> > 
> > It is already the default (for new installations). On upgrades the
> > non-glvnd variant will be kept installed (and upgraded).
> > (Automatically
> > switching at upgrade time is not easily possible as long as we want
> > to
> > provide both.)
> > But the variants can be exchanged later, installing the alternative
> > implementation will cause removal of the currently installed one.
> > 
> > 
> > Andreas
> > 
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