VDPAU depencency in nVidia driver package

Bug #561013 reported by Cédric Dufour
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NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu
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Bug Description

The 'nvidia-current' should depend - or at least recommend - the 'libvdpau1' package.

Otherwise, it is not clear that the VDPAU library is NOT part of the nVidia driver package (as one used to the nVidia-provided binary installer may expect). This may lead to problems such as mplayer throwing many hundred lines of non-descript errors, before failing, when trying to use '-vo vdpau -vc XYZvdpau' (unless one cacthes the error at the very beginning, saying the 'libvdpau.so.1' cannot be found).

cdufour@ced-workstation:~ > lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid

cdufour@ced-workstation:~ > apt-cache show nvidia-current
Package: nvidia-current
Priority: optional
Section: restricted/misc
Installed-Size: 129572
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Version: 195.36.15-0ubuntu2
Provides: xserver-xorg-video-6
Depends: x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0), make, sed (>> 3.0), dkms, linux-libc-dev, libc6-dev, linux-headers-generic | linux-headers, patch, acpid, libc6 (>= 2.3.2), libx11-6 (>= 0), libxext6 (>= 0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: nvidia-settings
Filename: pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-current_195.36.15-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 40786332
MD5sum: 51b94e6192071fb6a20e3f2c1d71f640
SHA1: cda03f6832b4572e5359779224f83bcde7aba282
SHA256: fff28c9e3fd87935ca4380b8d6409603ce3e03ebdac65a1b3e60042f9dacccff
Description: NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
 The binary driver provide optimized hardware acceleration of OpenGL
 applications via a direct-rendering X Server. AGP, PCIe, SLI, TV-out
 and flat panel displays are also supported.
 .
 This package also includes the source for building the kernel module
 required by the Xorg driver, and provides NVIDIA's implementation of
 the Video Decode and presentation API. The latter enables acceleration
 for NVIDIA 8 and later series cards for h264 video.
 .
 GPUs such as GeForce series 6 or newer are supported.
 .
 See /usr/share/doc/nvidia-current/README.txt.gz for a complete list
 of supported GPUs and PCIIDs
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 18m

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