Re: Where is libgl? [Wrong question?]
James A. Treacy wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 12:17:23PM +1100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > Thanks to all the people that replied, but that wasn't
> > quite what I was asking.
> >
> > At least two of the packages I listed have incorrect
> > dependancies. Should the all depend on mesag3 or
> > are we going to have a Provides: libgl somewhere.
> >
> > If so, has there been an agreed upon name?
> >
> Since OpenGL provides a well defined API, programs should be able
> to work with any of the packages that provide that interface.
> All packages will depend on libgl1.
Aha, so the other ones are bugs. Maybe they're fixed in Incoming.
> All packages providing OpenGL support will 'Provides: libgl1'.
> (when versioned provides become available, that will be changed to
> 'Provides: libgl1 (== 1.2)').
>
> The big question is when. Should we get the mesa 3.1 based packages
> into potato or wait until the next release? Putting them into
> potato means one of two things: all packages depending on opengl are
> recompiled and linked with -lGL or all packages providing opengl
> provide a link libGL.so.1 <- /usr/lib/libMesa.so.3. I'll bring up
> this point in a separate thread on debian-devel.
Personally I don't understand why symlinks from libGL -> libMesaGL
and from libGLU -> libMesaGLU didn't exist in the first place.
When compiling other OpenGL programs it was quite strange until
you worked it out and added them.
Martijn
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