Bug#338715: xserver-xorg: file conflict with nvidia-glx

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 11:21:32PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Daniel Stone said:
> > On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 11:03:12PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > > This has been an ongoing thing, I thought, and could be solved with a
> > > dpkg-divert, rather than a conflicts line.
> > 
> > Yes, as nvidia-glx already does for libGLcore.  It hasn't updated its
> > diversions for xserver-xorg yet, so it spuriously diverts libGLcore,
> > and fails to divert libglx.
> > 
> > However, it has been asserted that this is an xserver-xorg bug, so I'll
> > still be investigating ways we can somehow fix this in xserver-xorg.
> 
> Right, I was talking about having xserver-xorg do it as well.  Let me
> rephrase a bit:
> 
> I believe the nvidia packages in debian are doing it right now because
> they had to be coinstallable with xserver-xfree86.  Since xorg is the
> new kid on the block, so to speak, it can no longer claim "I owned the
> file first", so it is an xorg bug at least partly.

I disagree, a package in main should have ownership priority over a package in
non-free, especially a package that only works on x86.

Not sure, but should the nvidia-glx thingy not need to be upgraded at the same
time as X is installed, and will it then not do the right thing ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther