Please let libnvidia-compute-418 provide a versioned libcuda1

[ginggs]

dpkg has supported versioned Provides since 1.17.11, so this feature should already be available in Xenial and Bionic.

Let's add the versioned Provides now and once fully tested, we can start phasing out the ever-growing list of libcuda-5.0-1, libcuda-5.5-1, etc.

[ginggs]

This works for me:

--- a/debian/templates/control.in
+++ b/debian/templates/control.in
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/tseliot/nvidia-graphics-drivers/tree/#FLAVOUR#
 Build-Depends:
  debhelper (>= 9),
- dpkg-dev (>= 1.17),
+ dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.11~),
  xz-utils,
  dkms,
  libxext6 [!ppc64el],
@@ -112,7 +112,9 @@
   ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
 Provides: nvidia-opencl-icd, opencl-icd, libcuda-5.0-1, libcuda-5.5-1,
  libcuda-6.0-1, libcuda-6.5-1, libcuda-7.0-1, libcuda-7.5-1, libcuda-8.0-1,
- libcuda-9.0-1, libcuda-9.1-1, libcuda-9.2-1, libcuda-10.0-1
+ libcuda-9.0-1, libcuda-9.1-1, libcuda-9.2-1, libcuda-10.0-1,
+ libcuda1 (= ${source:Version}),
+ libnvidia-ml1 (= ${source:Version})
 Conflicts: nvidia-opencl-icd, libcuda-5.0-1, libcuda-5.5-1,
  libcuda-6.0-1, libcuda-6.5-1, libcuda-7.0-1, libcuda-7.5-1, libcuda-8.0-1,
  libcuda-9.0-1, libcuda-9.1-1, libcuda-9.2-1, libcuda-10.0-1

[tseliot]

What's the rationale of this? Being able to depend on, say, libcuda1 (>= 418.43), rather than on the CUDA release?

[ginggs]

Exactly. The nvidia-cuda-toolkit package in Debian has this dependency (because libcuda1 is a real package there) and then they added the | libcuda-5.0-1 alternate virtual dependency for Ubuntu sometime around Saucy, when versioned Provides did not exist yet.

[tseliot]

All right then, pushed.

[ginggs]

Fixed in https://github.com/tseliot/nvidia-graphics-drivers/commit/f90c34c3e5fa36718de2a4b4add9ba10ead8d0cc