Bug#987819: mate-optimus: Program is broken on Debian as prime-select doesn't exist
Package: mate-optimus
Version: 20.10.0-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: raibo.quadrofus@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
* What was the outcome of this action?
* What outcome did you expect instead?
*** End of the template - remove these template lines ***
The program that this package packages doesn't work 100% of the time,
and fails with an error about prime-select not existing when you try to use it any way.
It suggests the nvidia-prime package, which is required for it to work,
however nvidia-prime isn't packaged for Debian, only for Ubuntu. (Also,
there is an unresolved open wishlist item/similar to package nvidia-prime).
And the Ubuntu specific nvidia-prime package provides the required
prime-select tool.
This renders the program it packages completely unusable.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing-security
APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages mate-optimus depends on:
ii gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1 0.5.5-2
ii gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.24.24-3
ii gir1.2-notify-0.7 0.7.9-3
ii glew-utils 2.1.0-4+b1
ii python3 3.9.2-3
ii python3-gi 3.38.0-2
ii python3-setproctitle 1.2.1-1+b1
mate-optimus recommends no packages.
Versions of packages mate-optimus suggests:
pn nvidia-prime <none>
pn ubuntu-drivers-common <none>
-- no debconf information
Reply to: