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[Mario Limonciello <superm1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Couple of things:

1) This only affects Karmic (9.10)
2) This doesn't pull in the NVIDIA drivers, only the VDPAU pieces of  them
3) It was like this because libvdpau (to genericize the dependency) didn't exist yet when the packages were produced.
4) In lucid, libmyth depends on libvdpau1 which can dlopen different VDPAU backends.  It doesn't even depend on the NVIDIA backend (in case you want to use a different one)

** Also affects: mythtv (Ubuntu Karmic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: mythtv (Ubuntu Lucid)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: mythtv (Ubuntu Lucid)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Changed in: mythtv (Ubuntu Karmic)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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should not depend on hardware specific packages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/560214
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Status in “mythtv” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in “mythtv” source package in Lucid: Fix Released
Status in “mythtv” source package in Karmic: Won't Fix

Bug description:
Binary package hint: mythtv

Currently libmyth-0.22-0 depends on nvidia specific bits and pieces:

Depends: ... nvidia-185-libvdpau

This is simply wrong.  I should not have to carry the burden of nvidia drivers on my system and dkms having to rebuild them every time there is an update on a machine that doesn't even have an nvidia card in it.

There should _never_ be hardware-specific dependencies in non-hardware specific packages such as libmyth.