Bug#1013462: libnvidia-allocator1 has worthless description

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 24/06/2022 04.21, Craig Sanders wrote:
> A package description should provide a brief summary of what the package
> actually DOES and maybe some reason why I might want to install it (or NOT
> install it), i.e. what actual benefit or utility it provides. "package foo
> contains foo" is completely useless.

TBH, I have no clue what that library is good for.
Nvidia was not very informative when adding library,
these are the two places where it is mentioned in the documentation:

    o Various libraries that are used internally by other driver components.
      These include '/usr/lib/libnvidia-cfg.so.510.73.08',
[...]
      '/usr/lib/libnvidia-allocator.so.510.73.08'.

     * Added support for the GBM API. This adds the new symlink
       nvidia-drm_gbm.so pointing to the file libnvidia-allocator.so.VERSION to
       implement a GBM backend driver usable with the GBM loader from the Mesa
[...]

Do you have some suggestions what to put into the description instead?

("Nvidia probably knows a reason for the existence of this library."
wouldn't be helpful either.)


Andreas