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Re: Bug#611400: ITP: wayland -- new generation compositor



Here's a tiny update, and below, the descriptions.

Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (28/01/2011):
> * Package name    : wayland
>   Version         : git
>   Upstream Author : Kristian Høgsberg and others
> * URL             : http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
> * License         : GPL & MIT/X mostly.
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : new generation compositor
> 
> 
> >From the homepage:
> 
>     Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as
>     a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be a
>     standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev
>     input devices, an X application, or a wayland client itself. The clients
>     can be traditional applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or
>     other display servers.

I kept that as an explanation of what wayland is, in all binary packages
generated from src:wayland and src:wayland-demos. This bug is about the
former, the ITP bug for the latter is #630809. A prerequisite for that
one is now #630811.

>     The wayland repository includes a compositor which can run as an X
>     client or under Linux KMS and a few clients, but both the compositor and
>     clients are essentially test cases.
> 
> I'm not yet sure what pieces we're going to ship, and in which binary
> packages. But let's keep track in the BTS that the X Strike Force is
> going to take care of it.

src:wayland-demos ships wayland-demos.
src:wayland       ships libwayland0 libwayland0-dbg libwayland-dev.

Here are the descriptions for the libwayland* packages:

Package: libwayland0
Description: wayland compositor infrastructure - shared libraries
 Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well
 as a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be
 a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and
 evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland client
 itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers
 (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.
 .
 This is an experimental library package, neither ABI or API are fixed
 right now. As a consequence, generated dependencies are made as
 strict as possible. It should only be used by mesa and wayland-demos.


Package: libwayland0-dbg
Description: wayland compositor infrastructure - shared libraries (debug)
 Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well
 as a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be
 a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and
 evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland client
 itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers
 (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.
 .
 This package contains the debug version of the libraries found in
 libwayland0. Non-developers likely have little use for this package.


Package: libwayland-dev
Description: wayland compositor infrastructure - development files
 Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well
 as a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be
 a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and
 evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland client
 itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers
 (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.
 .
 This package contains the development headers for the libraries found
 in libwayland0. Non-developers likely have little use for this package.


> (I don't like the “new generation” bit in the short description,
> suggestions welcome.)

Gone away. I picked the description seen in the git repositories:
  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/

Mraw,
KiBi.

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