libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 for Ndidia backports drivers 460.39-1~bpo10+1: amd64 arm64 i386

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 14/04/2021 16.03, Floris Renaud wrote:
> phil995511 - schreef op 2021-04-14 03:05:
>> Hello,
>>
>> After a starting a new system with kernel 5.10.19 and nvidia drivers
>> 460.39-1, I need to use _libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386_
>>
>> This library is essential to run steam client.
>>
>> The only one disponible version is for the 418.x nvidia drivers ;-(
>>
>> Please add a version of _libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 _for 460.39 nvidia
>> drivers on backports.

> Maybe not entirely true, but the point is that
> the package libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 has been renamed to 
> libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx:i386

It's not exactly a rename, but at some point nvidia introduced a variant 
of their libGL.so.1 that is based on glvnd (so we had both 
libgl1-nvidia-glx and libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx), and at some point after 
the 418 series they dropped the older non-glvnd variant.

So libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx:i386 (or rather nvidia-driver-libs:i386) is 
what you want nowadays.

The Debian steam package has
   Suggests: nvidia-driver-libs, nvidia-vulkan-icd
Both these packages are built from src:nvidia-graphics-drivers.
Is there some package dependency elsewhere in the Debian archive that 
still points to the no longer existing libgl1-nvidia-glx ?

Andreas