dangling libXvMCNVIDIA.so* symlinks in /usr/lib32/nvidia-current/

Bug #709701 reported by Sergio Gelato
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: nvidia-current

Recent versions of the nvidia-current package for amd64 are missing /usr/lib32/nvidia-current/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.260.*. This is probably unintentional since the package still contains the usual symlinks (libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1, libXvMCNVIDIA.so, libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1) pointing to the missing shared library. This affects maverick and natty (but not lucid).

The library is still part of the upstream packages, in both 32- and 64-bit versions. What seems to have changed is that it is now linked against libXvMC.so.1, which is available in 64-bit form from Ubuntu package libxvmc1 but not yet in 32-bit form. I'm therefore conjecturing that one way to fix this bug could be to:
(1) make some package (ia32-libs or whatever) provide /usr/lib32/libXvMC.so.1;
(2) make nvidia-current build-depend on this package.

The package as it stands may be inadvertently violating the "No Separation of Components" clause in the NVIDIA license. (In other words, I don't think that dropping the dangling symlinks would be an acceptable solution.)

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