Calibre BPO cannot be installed for NVidia driver BPO users

[Julien Aubin]

Le lun. 9 juil. 2018 à 02:35, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> a écrit :
>
> On 2018-07-07 16:23, Julien Aubin wrote:
> > NVidia BPO is installable if libegl1-mesa is installed.
> >
> > But anyway I think there are provides clauses missing in NVidia BPO, i.e.
> > libgl1-glvnd-nvidia-glx should Provide (and not only replace) libgl1
> > libegl1-glvnd-nvidia should Provide (and not only replace) libegl1
> >
> > Now maybe I'm wrong but this is what the documentation tends to suggest :
> > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#document-ch-relationships
>
> Hi,
>
> I just uploaded nvidia-graphics-drivers 390.67-2~bpo9+1 to
> stretch-backports, these packages will
> * no longer build lib*-glvnd-nvidia*
> * require libglvnd and mesa from stretch-backports
>
> The nvidia packages cannot and will not provide the package names from
> libglvnd and mesa. Never. End of discussion.
> (Ask yourself: which package should provide libgl1:
> libgl1-nvidia{,-legacy-{304,340,390}xx,-glvnd}-glx ?)
>
>
> Andreas

Hi,

Do you mean you will no longer support glvnd packages ? Or that glvnd
becomes the default. Actually the non-glvnd variantes break
third-party apps like games... :'(

For the remaining I don't care about the Provides flag or whatever as
long as they do not prevent other apps from being installed.

Rgds