Re: Most packages that depend on mesa need to be recompiled
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 09:27:49PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> >>>>> "James" == James A Treacy <treacy@debian.org> writes:
>
> James> The following is a list of packages that depend on
> James> mesag3. Below that is a list of packages that depend on
> James> mesag-dev. The maintainers of packages providing the OpenGL
> James> api have agreed upon a naming convention for these
> James> dependencies: libgl1 and libgl-dev, respectively.
>
> So you did decide to go ahead and break all of them so close to
> freeze? :( Sigh.
>
Nothing was broken. The mesa packages I maintain (mesag3 and mesag3-glide2)
both provide mesag3. They also contain symlinks for libMesa{GL,GLU}.so.3.
The request for recompile is simply to enable other packages to provide
the opengl api.
Unfortunately, the mesag3+ggi packages did not get updated in time and
the glx packages didn't get added to the distro so this change doesn't
buy us much yet. As you say below, we need to move forward sometime.
> Oh well, I guess we have to move forward sometime.. this may
> slow release down quite a bit, though!
>
Backwards compatibility should be maintained. I used 'should' simply
because the compatibility hasn't been fully tested yet (xplanet works
fine though).
--
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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