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[Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

According to
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/i386/nvidia-180-libvdpau/filelist, the
package nvidia-180-libvdpau includes not just the NVIDIA VDPAU driver,
but also the VDPAU "wrapper" and "trace" libraries (libvdpau.so*,
libvdpau_trace.so*). Moving forward, it should only contain the NVIDIA
driver; the wrapper/trace libraries should be packaged elsewhere.

The rationale behind this is that VDPAU headers, the wrapper and trace library are all freely licensed, and hopefully soon to become a standard API with multiple implementations. At some unspecified point in the future,
the NVIDIA-provided driver packages (NVIDIA-*.run) will no longer ship these files. However, the NVIDIA implementation itself will still be part of our driver, and should continue to be packaged as such.

In summary, I expect the following packages to exist:

libvdpau (free):
(built from freedesktop.org source; see URL below)

/usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1 ->
/usr/lib/libvdpau.so.XXX
/usr/lib/libvdpau_trace.so ->
/usr/lib/libvdpau_trace.so.XXX

libvdpau-dev (free):
(built from freedesktop.org source; see URL below)

/usr/include/vdpau/vdpau.h
/usr/include/vdpau/vdpau_x11.h
/usr/lib/libvdpau.so -> /usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1

nvidia-180-libvdpau (restricted):
(built from NVIDIA .run file)

/usr/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so ->
/usr/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so.185.18.36

(where -> denotes a symlink)

FYI, see also:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2009-September/001036.html

This applies to both nvidia-180-* and nvidia-185-*.

** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #547248
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547248

** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547248
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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nvidia-180-libvdpau packages both libvdpau and libvdpau_nvidia
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432172
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