reopen 671086 thanks Hi,
Short of an explanation, it would be an offense to the open spririt of Debian to let this bug closed. If we all close bugs saying they are not bugs without explaning why, I can only imagine the poor level of quality we'll achieve. Regards. Sylvain On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:21:10PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the libgl1-mesa-glx package: > > #671086: libgl1-mesa-glx: Cannot install both libgl1-mesa-swx11 and > libgl1-mesa-glx > > It has been closed by Julien Cristau <[email protected]>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Julien Cristau > <[email protected]> by > replying to this email. > > > -- > 671086: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671086 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact [email protected] with problems > Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 22:16:00 +0200 > From: Julien Cristau <[email protected]> > To: Sylvain <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Subject: Re: Bug#671086: libgl1-mesa-glx: Cannot install both > libgl1-mesa-swx11 and libgl1-mesa-glx > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) > > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 21:54:20 +0200, Sylvain wrote: > > > reopen 671086 > > thanks > > > > Hi, > > > > I do not understand the regression. This was possible last year. > > Plus, what's the point of LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE if the software driver > > cannot be installed in parallel? > > > It's not a regression, and has nothing to do with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE. > Don't reopen this non-bug. > > Cheers, > Julien > Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 21:26:45 +0200 > From: [email protected] > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]> > Subject: libgl1-mesa-glx: Cannot install both libgl1-mesa-swx11 and > libgl1-mesa-glx > X-Mailer: reportbug 6.3.1 > > Package: libgl1-mesa-glx > Version: 7.11.2-1 > Severity: important > > Hi, > > I used to install both the software and the DRI implementation of Mesa. > > This allows to test an application with the DRI implementation by default, > and switch to software implementation, which is particularly useful when > debugging low-level OpenGL code, using: > > LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 ./myapp > > > Today, both libgl1-mesa-swx11 and libgl1-mesa-glx provide and conflict with > libgl1. This means I have to remove -glx to install -swx11 and vice-versa. > > Can these two libraries be installable in parallel? > > > Thanks! > Sylvain > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
