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Bug#583501: ITA: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome -- display driver for VIA Unichrome video chipsets



On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 20:30:14 +0200, Julien Viard de Galbert wrote:

> I have working hardware and some time to give to debian.
> 
> I already did some bug triage, but some are related to the more recent
> Chrome9 family of chipset. I think a more recent package using upstream
> trunk can help sorting those bugs (if ever the submitters dare to try a
> new package).
> 
> Also as squeeze is frozen, an experimental package is probably
> preferred.
> 
This sounds great.

> I've setup a git working place including debian's git and upstream svn.
> It looks like the experimental branches have not been updated for long.
> The upstream-experimental will merge nicely, but the debian-experimental
> branch has kind of diverged...
> Should I merge it (using some git revert if needed first), or can I just
> restart it from the debian-unstable branch ?

The current debian-experimental branch appears to be obsolete, so you
should feel free to forget about it and restart from the -unstable
branch, IMO.

> This does not look like good git practice, except if you look at
> experimental like a wip branch. How are other doing ?
> 
> Finally I'm not DD (nor DM) so I will need help, review and sponsoring,
> I hope some of you will have time for that.
> 
Feel free to ask any questions that come up on debian-x@ldo or #debian-x
on irc.debian.org.  Let me know if you want access to the pkg-xorg group
on git.d.o.

Cheers,
Julien

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