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Re: Bug#594808: ITP: xvba-video -- XvBA-based backend for VA API



On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 21:13:11 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote:

> Already uploaded to NEW.
> 
That means either you uploaded too soon or ITPed too late.  Nothing I
can do about that.

> xvba-video is the right source package name, the binary package is
> named xvba-va-driver (same way as the nvidia VA driver:
> vdpau-va-driver).

vdpau-va-driver has
Provides: nvidia-va-driver, s3g-va-driver, va-driver, vdpau-video
and is in main.  That doesn't sound nvidia-specific to me.

> The package description already mentions, that it is ATI/AMD
> specific. Users who want to activate this feature also know, that
> the AMD implementation of VA is named xvba :)
> 
"ATI/AMD specific" doesn't say anything about it requiring the use of
the fglrx X driver.  So yeah, the description needs to be improved as
well.

> I don't see any problems with that name.
> 
I do.

Cheers,
Julien

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