Bug#260099: xlibmesa-gl: for Voodoo3 cards, should suggest libglide3-dev instead of only libglide3
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 01:28 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 03:46:03PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> > Package: xlibmesa-gl
> > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > direct rendering is disabled until libglide3-dev is installed since libglide3.so
> > is dlopened which is (due to Debian policy, I guess) only in package libglide3-dev.
> > Thus, this package needs to Suggest: libglide3-dev and not libglide3 (pulled in
> > by libglide3-dev) unless you get the maintainer to not follow policy, here.
>
> Hmm. I am thinking the tdfx Mesa DRI module should dlopen the object by
> its name *including* the shared object major version number.
>
> After all, if that major version number changes, any object dlopen()ing it
> will probably need to be aware of that fact, as the interface will have
> changed in an incompatible way. In my view it's kind of naïve to expect
> otherwise.
This analysis is absolutely correct.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
Reply to: