On Sat May 31 00:03, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Matthew Johnson wrote:
>
> > Excellent. I shall have time tonight or over the weekend to review and
> > upload these, although I will touch base with the XSF before doing so.
>
> Sorry about the short delay.. here we go:
Cool
> These are almost certainly not 100% ready-for-upload. I can think of three
> issues/topics currently:
>
> * Relationship with libdrm package -- I've gone with creating seperately
> named binary packages in the style of libdrm-snapshot{2,-dev}, etc., for
> reasons discussed on the debian-x list.
Yup, I agree with this.
> However, I seem to have been misinformed about how the
> Replaces/Conflicts/Provides trick works (or am doing something silly) as
> my attempts to construct a package that can replace the libdrm2 package
> whilst still providing it were unsuccessful - attempting to install the
> resulting package kept trying to remove X.Org. (Currently, each package
> currently just "Replaces:" its non-snapshot counterpart.)
I believe you need all three. Conflicts causes the other one to be
removed, Provides causes dependencies on all the others to be satisfied.
> * The Build-Depends for xserver-xorg-video-nouveau currently contains:
>
> Build-Depends: [...], libdrm-snapshot-dev, [...]
>
> Should this (and/or the linux-nouveau-modules binary dependency) be
> versioned to ensure that the X driver and kernel module do not get
> horribly out of sync? I would not like to annoy upstream with
> unreproducable issues resulting from disparate versions (even if they do
> compile).
I agree
> * Maintainer/Uploaders field -- this is currently just set to me, *purely*
> to keep Lintian happy and to force discussion. If the package is to
> maintained in the XSF, this should probably change to:
>
> Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org>
> Uploaders: Matthew Johnson <mjj29@debian.org>, $ME
At the very least it should be maintained in a shared VCS and I should
be added as an uploader.
I can't see anything else obvious, I shall email debian-x and ask
whether it should be maintained in the XSF repositories.
Matt
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