Bug#903770: nvidia-graphics-drivers: Cannot be upgraded in stretch 9.5 without removing several GNOME & KDE packages

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 07/14/2018 06:41 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2018-07-14 17:27, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> On 07/14/2018 05:19 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>>> On 2018-07-14 17:04, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
>>>> The nvidia-driver packages cannot be updated as part of the stretch 9.5
>>>> stable update without removing several GNOME & KDE packages:
>>>
>>>>  The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>>>    libgl1 libgl1:i386 libgl1-nvidia-glx libglvnd0 libglvnd0:i386 libglx-nvidia0:i386 libglx0 libglx0:i386 libnvidia-glcore:i386
>>>
>>> Most of these packages are from stretch-backports, so you are not
>>> upgrading a clean stretch system ...
>>
>> They are from stretch-backports because of the apt resolver, the only
>> backports installed on that system are josm, qgis & libsfcgal1.
>>
>>> And the nvidia packages in stretch-backports now require mesa+libglvnd
>>> from stretch-backports.
>>
>> But I don't want the backport.
> 
> Probably blame it on apt for considering the backport at all ...
> 
>> Disabling stretch-backports sources gives better results:
>>
>>  The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>    libegl1-nvidia libgldispatch0-nvidia
>>  The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>    libegl1-glvnd-nvidia libglvnd0-nvidia libnvidia-egl-wayland1
>>    nvidia-egl-common nvidia-egl-icd nvidia-egl-wayland-common
>>    nvidia-egl-wayland-icd
>>  The following packages will be upgraded:
>>    libegl-nvidia0 libgl1-glvnd-nvidia-glx libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx
>>    libgles-nvidia1 libgles-nvidia2 libgles1-glvnd-nvidia
>>    libgles2-glvnd-nvidia libglx-nvidia0 libglx0-glvnd-nvidia
>>    libnvidia-cfg1 libnvidia-eglcore libnvidia-glcore
>>    libnvidia-ml1 libopengl0-glvnd-nvidia nvidia-alternative
>>    nvidia-driver nvidia-driver-bin nvidia-driver-libs nvidia-kernel-dkms
>>    nvidia-kernel-support nvidia-vdpau-driver nvidia-vulkan-icd
>>    xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
>>  23 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 
> That looks like expected. It's a bit unfortunate, but the new upstream
> release requires several new/renamed/removed packages. Hopefully this 
> was the last big nvidia-driver change needed in stable, switching to
> 390.xx for the next CVE should be more smooth (and then we will finally 
> have reached a new legacy branch that has a longer support frame
> upstream).
> 
>> I shouldn't have to disable the backports sources for `apt-get
>> dist-upgrade` to work correctly.
> 
> That can't be solved differently in this case (unless we make the
> backported packages use mesa from stretch (and *not* backports) again,
> preventing installation of several backports requiring the newer mesa).
> I couldn't get a working setup supporting both mesa versions (due to the
> libglvnd switch), any invalid mixture of packages results in the 
> backported driver not working in stable-backports at all.

Thanks for the feedback, since this cannot fixed, you can close this bug.

Kind Regards,

Bas