Re: bogl forked (was Re: [patch] bogl memset_var for 32 bpp screen)
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:54:38PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:27:51PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > > Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> writes:
> > > > Sorry for not being clear - yes, I know that bterm has the same bug.
> > > > I'd appreciate it if someone on this list would look into using the
> > > > bogl and bterm in that package, so that we can scrap the one in
> > > > debian-boot CVS; having both makes me nervous about lost work.
> > >
> > > I guess we'll plan on using straight bogl from woody for the woody
> > > boot floppies. I hate forking. I'm not sure why we forked
> > > it... Maybe Marcin (or was it Marcel?) can explain it?
> >
> > We didn't fork it for boot floppies; it was originally there. I added
> > new bogl packages to woody for debian-installer, though, a month ago.
> > At that point it was effectively forked - mostly my fault.
>
> Oh. Ok. So -- am I correct in concluding that boot-floppies for
> woody should rely on using bogl from woody (the .deb, b-f can't use
> udebs) and not the internal stuff?
If at all possible, yes!
It will take a little doing, because I removed the boxes code; that
just needs to link to the provided libbogl. Then I can go through and
sweep up any pending patches in the b-f bogl repository, and delete the
whole directory. I don't have time to do this right now, alas :(
Dan
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