[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#704257: missing libgl1-mesa-dri in upgrades

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 01 avril 2013 à 22:04 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a
écrit : 
> > $ apt-cache depends libgl1-mesa-glx
> >    ...
> >      Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri
> >
> 
> Well, "Recommends" are installed by default, aren't they? However, I'm 
> not sure why it shouldn't be depending on either "libgl1-mesa-dri" or 
> "libgl1-mesa-swx11" here. I mean, MESA doesn't work without either of 
> these, does it?

It should work with indirect GLX if the server supports it, in which
case you don’t need either of the two. I guess this is the reason for
Recommends instead of Depends.

OTOH the metapackage xorg correctly depends on libgl1-mesa-dri. I’m not
sure what can be done to make things better.

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