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Bug#589045: marked as done (libdrm-intel1/etc. useless package split)

Your message dated Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:47:21 +0100
with message-id <20100714144721.GC3183@radis.liafa.jussieu.fr>
and subject line Re: Bug#589045: libdrm-intel1/etc. useless package split
has caused the Debian Bug report #589045,
regarding libdrm-intel1/etc. useless package split
to be marked as done.

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Package: libdrm-intel1
Version: 2.4.20-2
Severity: normal

I see that there are a bunch of libdrm packages installed on my system:
ii  libdrm-dev                                      2.4.20-2                          Userspace interface to kernel DRM services -
ii  libdrm-intel1                                   2.4.20-2                          Userspace interface to intel-specific kernel
ii  libdrm-nouveau1                                 2.4.20-2                          Userspace interface to nouveau-specific kern
ii  libdrm-radeon1                                  2.4.20-2                          Userspace interface to radeon-specific kerne
ii  libdrm2                                         2.4.20-2                          Userspace interface to kernel DRM services -

How nice, I can keep only the drm package I need for my card and remove the
rest, right? That is why they were split into separate packages in the first
place, right? Wrong.
I have a radeon card, so I try removing libdrm-intel1.

# apt-get remove libdrm-intel1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libdrm-dev libdrm-intel1 libgl1-mesa-dri xorg xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-intel

That didn't go well.

# apt-get remove libdrm-nouveau1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libdrm-dev libdrm-nouveau1 xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

This is a bit better, but it still wants to remove the -dev package.

To sum up: the libdrm-* split is useless: you can't remove one package without
removing all the other, so why split them up in the first place?

Please either make these packages individually installable/removable, or create
just 1 libdrm package and don't split it into 3 different packages.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-rc3-00001-g6bdebf9 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libdrm-intel1 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdrm2                       2.4.20-2   Userspace interface to kernel DRM 

libdrm-intel1 recommends no packages.

libdrm-intel1 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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No.

Cheers,
Julien

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