The Glide library is a mess. It's non-free and no source is available. As distributed by the upstream author you get a library called libglide2x.so, with no embedded soname. I had packaged up an old version of this library.
I went to update the package and I found that the situation has gotten much uglier. Now, the upstream author is releasing 6 different versions of the library. There are libc5 and libc6 versions for each of three different kinds of video hardware. All 6 packages provide the same library name (libglide2x.so). Further, none of them has a soname or even versioned links. I'm disgusted by the whole mess. This is what I get for taking on a non-free package. The author is currently distributing in RPM format. I'd like to get the existing libglide2 package dropped from non-free and to point our users at alien and the RPMs distributed upstream. This isn't a great solution, but it's the best I have come up with. Can anybody suggest a better one? -- Roderick Schertler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
