Conflicts vs Replaces vs Provides

2010-12-05 Thread Harald Dunkel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I found this in debian/control for libgl1-mesa-glx: : Conflicts: libgl1, libgl1-mesa-dri ( 6.4.0) Replaces: libgl1, libgl1-mesa-dri ( 6.4.0) Provides: libgl1 : This looks weird to me. How can it

Re: Conflicts vs Replaces vs Provides

2010-12-05 Thread Sven Joachim
Am 05.12.2010 um 12:05 schrieb Harald Dunkel: I found this in debian/control for libgl1-mesa-glx: : Conflicts: libgl1, libgl1-mesa-dri ( 6.4.0) Replaces: libgl1, libgl1-mesa-dri ( 6.4.0) Provides: libgl1 : This looks weird to me. How can it replace and

Re: Conflicts vs Replaces vs Provides

2010-12-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:37:42 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: I found this in debian/control for libgl1-mesa-glx: : Conflicts: libgl1, libgl1-mesa-dri ( 6.4.0) Replaces: libgl1, libgl1-mesa-dri ( 6.4.0) Provides: libgl1 : This looks weird to me. How can it replace

Re: Conflicts vs Replaces vs Provides

2010-12-05 Thread Harald Dunkel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/05/10 13:37, Sven Joachim wrote: Am 05.12.2010 um 12:05 schrieb Harald Dunkel: Doesn't this mean that no other packages providing libgl1 can be installed, Not along libgl1-mesa-glx, yes. It's not like there are many other providers

Re: Conflicts vs Replaces vs Provides

2010-12-05 Thread Sven Joachim
Am 05.12.2010 um 19:52 schrieb Harald Dunkel: On 12/05/10 13:37, Sven Joachim wrote: Am 05.12.2010 um 12:05 schrieb Harald Dunkel: Doesn't this mean that no other packages providing libgl1 can be installed, Not along libgl1-mesa-glx, yes. It's not like there are many other providers

Re: Conflicts vs Replaces vs Provides

2010-12-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Harald Dunkel ha...@afaics.de writes: What if someone _wants_ to install 2 libraries providing libgl and wants to choose later using update-alternatives? This will hopefully be possible in the long run. The NVIDIA packages now support this between their various versions, and we're interested