On 2017-12-29 13:23, Graham Inggs wrote: > While finally trying to backport this change [1] into Ubuntu's > packaging, I noticed, at least since the upload of gtk+2.0 2.24.31-1, > that nvidia-settings now depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.31) and the > regex in the override_dh_gencontrol target of debian/rules no longer > works.
I don't see such behavior in sid on amd64/i386/armhf - is this specific to Ubuntu? The most generic solution would probably be to split nvidia-settings into three packages: nvidia-settings, libnvidia-gtk2, libnvidia-gtk3 and drop any gtk dependency magic we currently have. Andreas