Re: 4.3.0 wishlist item
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 16:42, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:12:49PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 03:08:44PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 14:51, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 02:49:07PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 09:20, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > > > > I don't think we should be forcing users to use an experimental snapshot
> > > > > > package to get bugfixes for issues like that, personally. I mean, it's
> > > > > > not like our tree is completely virginal anyway. ;)
> > > > >
> > > > > IMHO, the driver snapshot packages would completely remove the need to
> > > > > include bleeding edge drivers in the release packages. Bugfixes should
> > > > > be backported if necessary.
>
> And they should go in the bufix branch, not the head branch.
Sure.
> > > > The Savage drivers have regular "stable" tarball releases.
> > >
> > > Still doesn't make them part of the 4.3.0 release, does it? Make
> > > separate packages for them then?
> >
> > Yeah, I might SDK it. OTOH, I might just let Sven do his snapshot SDK
> > stuff, and deal. I have a Radeon at home, and a PowerPC GeForce4 and an
> > i845G at work, they all work, sooo ... ;)
>
> The advantage of the SDK, is that i can then make CVS head driver
> snapshots, but someone else can then also make regular "stable" savage
> drivers packages. Or someone at ATI or Nvidia could make closed sources
> .debs using said packages.
>
> It would be best if the drivers be split out then, but i suppose even
> with a split out drivers package, this could cause problems, until we
> split each driver in its own package, as someone (Michel) recomended in
> the past.
Actually, I didn't, I only thought about one package for all drivers.
> The other way would be for the driver packages to divert the
> drivers from the official xserver-xfree86 package.
That might still be a solution for additional single driver packages.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
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