On Sun Jun 01 04:10, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > > I can't see anything else obvious, I shall email debian-x and ask > > whether it should be maintained in the XSF repositories. > > Excellent; I saw your post and have incorporated the following changes: > > * Rename source package libdrm-snapshot => drm-snapshot. > * Remove X.Org "endorsements" from xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package > description. > > So as I see it, the two issues that remain are: I had a conversation about this with jcristau on IRC: 21:56 -!- Irssi: Starting query in oftc with jcristau 21:56 <jcristau> hi 21:57 <jcristau> one question about the nouveau packages, how do you get your libdrm-snapshot coinstallable with libdrm2? 21:57 <mjj29> hi 21:57 <mjj29> you don't 21:57 <mjj29> I believe 21:57 <mjj29> hence the conflicts/replaces/provides 21:58 <jcristau> then you have a problem 21:58 <jcristau> because the x server depends on libdrm2 21:58 <jcristau> i'll reply to the mail 21:58 <mjj29> libdrm-snapshot should provide libdrm2 21:58 <jcristau> that won't help 21:58 <mjj29> (it doesn't yet) 21:59 <mjj29> because it's versionned? 21:59 <jcristau> yes 21:59 <mjj29> ah, I was wondering if that would be a problem 21:59 <mjj29> so, either it needs to be coinstallable, or it just needs to be libdrm2? 21:59 <mjj29> would you be happy with the latter solution? 21:59 <jcristau> yes, see my mail 22:00 <jcristau> it needs checking that the removed symbols aren't used by anything 22:00 <mjj29> cool 22:00 <mjj29> we will probably do that then 22:03 <jcristau> is there a plan to package a mesa snapshot for the dri driver too at some point? 22:03 <mjj29> that's for the 3D stuff? 22:03 <jcristau> yes 22:04 <mjj29> upstream don't want 3D to be packaged anywhere yet 22:04 <jcristau> ok 22:04 <mjj29> even in exp. 22:04 <jcristau> fair enough 22:06 <jcristau> feel free to ask on the list or #debian-x if you need anything from us 22:06 <mjj29> sure 22:07 <jcristau> oh, and i forgot: your xsfbs copy could be updated :) 22:07 <mjj29> ah, thanks So, in summary we want to use libdrm2. Have you looked at the removed symbols thing? > 2. Maintainer/Uploaders field > ============================= > > > At the very least it should be maintained in a shared VCS and I should > > be added as an uploader. > > Agree 100%. As the owner of the ITP, I defer this decision to you. I am > perfectly happy with it being in the XSF repositories, but I do not have > commit access there. Do you happen to know the procedure for joining? I don't, I'm not a member. I'm happy just to have commit access to a repository on alioth or somewhere else. We could possible coordinate with RAOF and have different branches in the same repository or something. If you want to just setup something, I'll go with whatever. Matt -- Matthew Johnson
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