[Bug 1099968] Re: Please remove and blacklist glx-alternatives

[Daniel Holbach]

ACKed.

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Title:
  Please remove and blacklist glx-alternatives

Status in “glx-alternatives” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Please remove glx-alternatives from the archive and blacklist it.  The
  binaries provided by it depend on the way graphics drivers are
  installed in Debian and this is done completely differently in Ubuntu.

  Original bug description:
  This bug affects both glx-alternative-mesa and glx-diversions. Both packages require nvidia-installer-cleanup, however, nvidia-installer-cleanup is not installable.

  slockwood at tincek:~$ sudo apt-get -f -u -m install glx-alternative-mesa glx-diversions
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:

  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   glx-diversions : PreDepends: nvidia-installer-cleanup but it is not installable
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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