Debian Bug report logs - #674563
mesa: install libGL.so* into $libdir/mesa, add links to $libdir

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: mesa: install libGL.so* into $libdir/mesa, add links to $libdir

Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 14:56:48 +0200

Source: mesa
Version: 7.11.2-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hi,

this is in response to a thread started here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2011/07/msg00292.html
and later continued here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2011/10/msg00137.html

In order to simplify managing alternative GL implementations, I propose
to ship the MESA libraries in $libdir/mesa/ with symlinks to libGL.so.1
and libGL.so in $libdir/
This is a first start and helps to reduce the number of diversions
needed.
The next step would be the use of some alternatives system directly
in the MESA packages (that needs to be multi-arch aware). This will
remove the need for diversions at all, but needs more discussion ...

I also sent some patches to debian-x@ but never submitted a bug report,
so these patches for moving libGL* probably were forgotten:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2011/10/msg00149.html (for GL)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2011/10/msg00378.html (for EGL, GLES)

If anyone is interested, I'll update the patches for MESA 8.


Andreas

Message #12 received at 674563-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Boll <andreas.boll.dev@gmail.com>

To: Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>, 674563-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#674563: mesa: install libGL.so* into $libdir/mesa, add links to $libdir

Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:22:45 +0100

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 02:56:48PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Source: mesa
> Version: 7.11.2-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this is in response to a thread started here:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2011/07/msg00292.html
> and later continued here:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2011/10/msg00137.html
> 
> In order to simplify managing alternative GL implementations, I propose
> to ship the MESA libraries in $libdir/mesa/ with symlinks to libGL.so.1
> and libGL.so in $libdir/
> This is a first start and helps to reduce the number of diversions
> needed.
> The next step would be the use of some alternatives system directly
> in the MESA packages (that needs to be multi-arch aware). This will
> remove the need for diversions at all, but needs more discussion ...
> 
> I also sent some patches to debian-x@ but never submitted a bug report,
> so these patches for moving libGL* probably were forgotten:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2011/10/msg00149.html (for GL)
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2011/10/msg00378.html (for EGL, GLES)
> 
> If anyone is interested, I'll update the patches for MESA 8.
> 
> 
> Andreas
> 

This has been superseded by libglvnd.
Closing.

Thanks,
Andreas

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