Bug#684871: unblock: nvidia-graphics-drivers/304.37-1,nvidia-settings/304.37-1, nvidia-xconfig/304.37-1
On 2012-09-03 23:07, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 19:29 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>> That depends on the future of ia32-libs in wheezy. Has there been a
>> decision, yet?
>
> ftp-master really really want it to go away. Before that can happen we
> need the upgrade path from the old to new ia32-libs to just work[tm],
> which would mean getting some more multi-arched libraries transitioned.
In that case I don't think dropping some dependencies on ia32-libs in
advance (by making src:n-g-d's *-ia32 transitional) will cause much harm
in wheezy - the *-ia32 packages anyway would need to be updated (into
transitionals) once the monolithic ia32-libs is gone - on the contrary,
it will reduce the upgrade paths involving ia32-libs because the old one
might be just removed if it's no longer needed.
(lib32vdpau1 is one of the packages that can be removed afterwards)
Andreas
PS: once ia32-libs-i386:i386 became installable in sid/amd64 (at least
for a short time without binNMU conflicts) I tried rebuilding
nvidia-graphics-drivers 302.17-3 (amd64) - which did not fail, but
produced for the *-ia32 packages useless dependencies on some [:native]
libraries instead of :i386 library packages, so there is no way to
resurrect the *-ia32 packages as non-transitional - they will be
unbuildable (or unusable).
PPS: the decision regarding nvidia-graphics-drivers will also influence
how I'm going to prepare an upgrade for nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-173xx
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