[Bug 1092259] [NEW] nvidia-cuda-dev conflicts with nvidia-experimental-*

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[SRU] The debdiff attached to comment #5 backports the required changes
from nvidia-cuda-toolkit 5.0.35-4 in Raring.

[IMPACT]
Users with only nvidia-experimental-304 or nvidia-experimental-310 installed are unable to install nvidia-cuda-toolkit without nvidia-current (which conflicts) being installed.
Users with only nvidia-experimental-304 or nvidia-experimental-310 installed are unable to build nvidia-cuda-toolkit from its source package.

[Test Cases]
Install nvidia-experimental-304 or nvidia-experimental-310 (this can be done on computers without Nvidia hardware) and then attempt to install nvidia-cuda-toolkit.

[Regression Potential]
Minimal: the changes only affect the installation of nvidia-cuda-toolkit by allowing additional packages to satisfy its dependencies.

Original bug description:
On Quantal x86_64, you can't install nvidia-cuda-dev if you've got the nvidia-experimental drivers installed, which are the only supported drivers for things like the Steam beta:

$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libcublas4 libcudart4 libcufft4 libcuinj4 libcurand4 libcusparse4 libnpp4 libthrust-dev libvdpau-dev nvidia-current
Suggested packages:
  nvidia-cuda-toolkit libvdpau-doc
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  nvidia-experimental-310
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libcublas4 libcudart4 libcufft4 libcuinj4 libcurand4 libcusparse4 libnpp4 libthrust-dev libvdpau-dev nvidia-cuda-dev nvidia-current
0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 146 MB of archives.
After this operation, 427 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n

There's no reason this package incompatibility exists, CUDA operations
should be available with any version of the nvidia binary drivers.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: nvidia-cuda-dev (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-19.30-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Dec 19 11:00:00 2012
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: nvidia-cuda-toolkit
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-23 (56 days ago)

** Affects: nvidia-cuda-toolkit (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: nvidia-cuda-toolkit (Ubuntu Precise)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: nvidia-cuda-toolkit (Ubuntu Quantal)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: nvidia-cuda-toolkit (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Fix Released


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug quantal
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nvidia-cuda-dev conflicts with nvidia-experimental-*
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1092259
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