Bug#739269: Please move libwayland-egl out of libegl1-mesa-drivers
Hi,
On 17/02/14 14:50, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 12:17 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> > On 17/02/14 11:48, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
>>> > > Package: libegl1-mesa-drivers
>>> > > Severity: normal
>>> > >
>>> > > libwayland-egl has been included in the libegl1-mesa-drivers, which seems a bit
>>> > > odd as it's an application library not a driver.
>>> > >
>>> > > Practically this causes an issue on systems where wayland is used but the
>>> > > EGL/GL stack isn't provided by mesa as applications using libwayland-egl depend
>>> > > on libegl1-mesa-drivers which almost forcibly pulls in mesa.
>> >
>> > How would alternative implementations satisfy the dependency? Should we name the
>> > package libwayland-egl1-mesa, and have the shlibs force a dependency on
>> > "libwayland-egl1-mesa | libwayland-egl1-provider" (or similar) ?
> Yeah same as libegl1-mesa has | libegl1-x11 by its symbols file.
> Attached is a patch that splits out the library in that way, but keeps
> the library & pkg-config files as part of libegl1-mesa-dev
Cool, let's do this. There was a typo in the Provides (libwayland-egl). I have
fixed that and removed the debian revision from the symbols file and committed that.
Emilio
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