Oibaf, thanks for the link.  Strange, I had searched *hard* for an
existing bug report but found nothing in launchpad.

We had considered using libtxn-dxtc0 which would be a more generic
solution but the games in question appear to be asking for s2tc
specifically:

<Sarvatt> should be libtxc-dxtn0, so people can actually use the patent 
encumbered one if they want? :P libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 provides libtxc-dxtn0
<bryceh> not a bad idea
<Sarvatt> except the humble games require libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 so cant install it 
at the same time as those anyway :(
<bryceh> hrm
<RAOF> The humble bundle explicitly depend on libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0?
<Sarvatt> bastion does at least
<RAOF> Sarvatt: Is there any particular reason why someone would want the 
patent-encumbered one?
<Sarvatt> haven't heard of any complaints about s2tc, but the description of 
how it gets around the patent makes it sound like the patented one might be 
preferred
<Sarvatt> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2TC
<Sarvatt> better to stick with what we have i guess after thinking about it, 
not like libtxc-dxtn0 will be going into debian/ubuntu and the provides might 
end up getting dropped one day
<bryceh> ok

I will dupe 823062 here if you don't mind.

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