This one time, at band camp, Daniel Stone said: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 11:03:12PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This has been an ongoing thing, I thought, and could be solved with a > > dpkg-divert, rather than a conflicts line. > > Yes, as nvidia-glx already does for libGLcore. It hasn't updated its > diversions for xserver-xorg yet, so it spuriously diverts libGLcore, > and fails to divert libglx. > > However, it has been asserted that this is an xserver-xorg bug, so I'll > still be investigating ways we can somehow fix this in xserver-xorg. Right, I was talking about having xserver-xorg do it as well. Let me rephrase a bit: I believe the nvidia packages in debian are doing it right now because they had to be coinstallable with xserver-xfree86. Since xorg is the new kid on the block, so to speak, it can no longer claim "I owned the file first", so it is an xorg bug at least partly. Additionally, all these proprietary add on drivers that insist on providing their own gl libraries usually don't bother with dpkg-divert calls (presumably because they are packaged by monkeys at ATI or something), so having some of that logic in the xorg packages would be helpful in the general case, even if there was no bug in xorg as such. Thanks, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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