Thanks for your answers, Marcelo. > > I noticed that Ubuntu renamed mesag3->libglu1-mesa and > > xlibmesa-gl->libgl1-xorg. > > Hopefully libglu1-mesa is a typo on your side. The driver provided by > mesag3 is a software rasterizer and the package *should* be named > something like libgl1-mesa-soft (or swr or whatever, something that at > least gives a hint about the type of driver it provides) You're right. It's not libglu1-mesa but libgl1-mesa. While my Debian unstable box still has a mesag3 package, a current Ubuntu Breezy only has a package libgl1-mesa, which conflicts with mesag3 and provides the virtual package mesag3. Same for xlibmesa-gl. This package was renamed/replaced by libgl1-xorg and is now completely removed from Ubuntu Breezy. It seems there were many renamings lastly in Ubuntu Breezy(1): mesag3->libgl1-mesa xlibmesa-gl->libgl-xorg xlibmesa-glu->libglu1 and new packages libglu1-mesa providing libglu1 libgl1-mesa-dri providing libgl1-dri x-window-system-core in Ubuntu Breezy now depends on libgl1-mesa-dri/libgl1-mesa/libglu1-mesa while as in unstable it is xlibmesa-dri/xlibmesa-gl/liblu1-xorg. I got the impression that this is an attempt to get a consistent naming scheme as a first step in order to prepare for the X11R6.9/X11R7.0 release. IIRC X11R6.9 and X11R7.0 will use an installed mesa package to provide OpenGL functionality and will not need it's own copy of mesa anymore. Maybe I'm completely wrong and I only got confused a little bit by all this package renamings lately. Cherrs, Michael (1) I know that this is d-d and not the ubuntu m-l. It just seems that the Ubuntu packages for X are slightly ahead of Debian and I just wondered if Debian will take the same path. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ E-Mail: biebl@teco.edu WWW: http://www.teco.edu/ TecO (Telecooperation Office) Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str.1 University of Karlsruhe 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------
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