Bug#676723: libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386: Please downgrad libxvmc dependency to Recommends

[Ralf Jung]

Package: libgl1-nvidia-glx
Version: 295.53-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

currently, libgl1-nvidia-glx can not be installed in a foreign architecture
since it depends on libxvmc1, which has not yet been converted to
multi-arch [1]. This means that foreign-architecture applications can not use
hardware-accelerated OpenGL.
However, libgl1-nvidia-glx-ia32 which used to provide this functionality, only
depends on ia32-libs, which does not contain libxvmc. So the driver actually
works without it available. From what I understood, the nvidia drivers merely
provide an alternative xvmc implementation which has to be manually set up in
/etc/X11/XvMCConfig. Besides, GeForce 8 and later cards do not even support
xvmc at all [2].
Since the package does not actually depend on anything libxvmc does or provides,
I suggest to downgrade the Depends: to a Recommends:

Kind regards,
Ralf

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640499
[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Enable_XvMC_for_NVIDIA_video_cards

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.13-33
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.4.99.901-2
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.1-2
ii  libxv1                    2:1.0.7-1
ii  libxvmc1                  2:1.0.7-1.1~local
ii  multiarch-support         2.13-33
ii  nvidia-alternative        295.53-1
ii  nvidia-installer-cleanup  20111111+3
ii  nvidia-support            20111111+3

Versions of packages libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 recommends:
ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms [nvidia-kernel-295.53]  295.53-1

Versions of packages libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 suggests:
ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms [nvidia-kernel-dkms]  295.53-1

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