Public bug reported: According to http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/i386/nvidia-180-libvdpau/filelist, the package nvidia-180-libvdpau includes not just the NVIDIA VDPAU driver, but also the VDPAU "wrapper" and "trace" libraries (libvdpau.so*, libvdpau_trace.so*). Moving forward, it should only contain the NVIDIA driver; the wrapper/trace libraries should be packaged elsewhere.
The rationale behind this is that VDPAU headers, the wrapper and trace library are all freely licensed, and hopefully soon to become a standard API with multiple implementations. At some unspecified point in the future, the NVIDIA-provided driver packages (NVIDIA-*.run) will no longer ship these files. However, the NVIDIA implementation itself will still be part of our driver, and should continue to be packaged as such. In summary, I expect the following packages to exist: libvdpau (free): (built from freedesktop.org source; see URL below) /usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1 -> /usr/lib/libvdpau.so.XXX /usr/lib/libvdpau_trace.so -> /usr/lib/libvdpau_trace.so.XXX libvdpau-dev (free): (built from freedesktop.org source; see URL below) /usr/include/vdpau/vdpau.h /usr/include/vdpau/vdpau_x11.h /usr/lib/libvdpau.so -> /usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1 nvidia-180-libvdpau (restricted): (built from NVIDIA .run file) /usr/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so -> /usr/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so.185.18.36 (where -> denotes a symlink) FYI, see also: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2009-September/001036.html This applies to both nvidia-180-* and nvidia-185-*. ** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Debian) Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #547248 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547248 ** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547248 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- nvidia-180-libvdpau packages both libvdpau and libvdpau_nvidia https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432172 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
