Re: Maintaining older xorg driver packages by Debian Ports
On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 14:22, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> On 4/21/20 3:09 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> >> After some xorg driver packages were removed from the archive in #955603 [1]
> >> that we still need for Debian Ports, I was wondering whether it's okay when
> >> I take over maintainership and upload the packages to unstable as we need
> >> them.
> >>
> >> I understand that the timing is a bit unfortunate, but I wasn't aware of the
> >> removal bug otherwise, I would have asked for some of the drivers to stay.
> >>
> >> But I can just maintain the driver packages myself if that's ok?
> >>
> > If they're needed by debian-ports, then may I suggest you maintain them
> > there?
>
> Maintaining them in Debian Ports is completely manual and therefore very
> cumbersome. The packages cannot be built automatically unless they
> are part of the main archive.
Hi Julien et al, is it possible to get some further feedback on this
issue? It affects a large number of users of older hardware, who were
not aware of the change until after the fact. It isn't as though the
drivers fail to build or are unsupported upstream, and a Debian
developer (Adrian) has offered to maintain the package.
Thanks,
Ed Robbins
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