Bug#739183: spring: suggested package libtxc-dxtn0 is now recommended by libgl1-mesa-dri

[Vincent Cheng]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Markus Koschany <apo at gambaru.de> wrote:
> Package: spring
> Version: 96.0+dfsg-1
> Severity: normal
>
>
> I have received a private e-mail about this issue. Just so that it
> won't get lost, I'm quoting the original e-mail here as a reminder for
> the next revision.
>
> "Hi, thanks for updating debian spring package!
>
> Can you remove the suggest of libtxc-dxtn0 ? It was already
> recommended by libgl1-mesa-dri in the meantime, and it's useful only with mesa
> drivers, not the proprietary ones. Also no other game needing it suggests it, since
> it's already implied by mesa.

libtxc-dxtn0 isn't even in Debian proper (patent-encumbered by an
active patent, and thus only available on marillat's deb-multimedia
repo); closest thing we have in Debian is libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0
(src:s2tc), but I digress...spring shouldn't be directly suggesting
either package.

Regards,
Vincent