Hey all. As I mentioned on #debian-x yesterday, we're going to get some proprietary implementations of libEGL and libGLES and I think it would be good if we had a set of virtual packages for them. I therefore propose the following virtual packages: libgles1 libgles2 libegl-x11 There was concern that there's not necessarily a well-defined meaning for these packages. Reading the Khronos implementors guide¹ it looks like there's an official “strongly recommended” ABI defined for the GL| ES APIs. We could therefore define those virtual packages to provide that Khronos ABI, which looks well-defined to me. For EGL it is a little different - the ABI seems to be dependent on what EGLNativeDisplayType is. It looks like you need to initialise an EGLDisplay from an EGLNativeDisplayType which you've constructed yourself outside the EGL interface. Thus, the EGL ABI is backend-dependent, so we define a libegl-x11 virtual package for a libEGL with EGLNative*Types using the Khronos-defined X11 types. [1]: http://www.khronos.org/registry/implementers_guide.html#uncontrolled
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