Re: GLX vs Mesa vs OpenGL

[Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>]

>>>>> "James" == James A Treacy <treacy@debian.org> writes:

    James> The maintainers of packages that provide OpenGL
    James> compatability are working on this very issue. We have
    James> decided to have all such packages 'Provide: libgl1' and
    James> provide a symlink from libGL.so.1 to the relevant library
    James> (libMesaGL.so.3 in the case of mesa).  Ditto for
    James> libGLU.so.1. Packages should link using -lGL.

I'm not sure if it's important, but you may want to make it 'Provides:
libgl1.x' where x is 0, 1, or 2 -- as some programs need the
functionality in a later version over an older version..

Ben

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