On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:46:33 -0700 Vincent Cheng wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Francesco Poli > <invernomuto@paranoici.org> wrote: [...] > > I really hope that you manage to adopt it soon and that you are willing > > to move it back to the main archive, by disabling the nvidia support > > (see bug #579102 for the details). [...] > > As a longtime Conky (and Debian) user, I'm definitely willing to make > sure that Conky is properly maintained in Debian. :) That's great to hear, indeed! :-) > > I've taken a close look at #579102 and the various ways this issue can > be fixed, I'm inclined to go with a different method altogether; have > a source package "conky" that provides "conky-cli" and "conky-std" > binaries (and the transitional "conky" package), both compiled without > the --enable-nvidia flag (so it can be moved to main), as well as a > new source package named "conky-all" that provides a "conky-all" > binary, with Nvidia support (the status quo; this would go in > contrib). The transitional "conky" package would depend on conky-all | > conky-std (currently it only depends on conky-all), so Debian users > with contrib enabled would install the former, and those without > contrib would install the latter. This sounds like a perfect solution! Thank you very much for your intention to implement it. I had thought about something similar, but I didn't dare to suggest it, since it increases the burden on the maintainer's side. I was afraid that such a proposal would have never been accepted! ;-) > If you want a comparison, I suppose > this is somewhat similar to how p7zip and p7zip-rar are packaged. Talking about rar, I really hope theunarchiver is uploaded soon to unstable... (see ITP bug #619602)... [...] > With my solution, Debian users can still install > Conky without the need for contrib, yet they also have the option to > install a Conky compiled with --enable-nvidia, if they want to; Ubuntu > users would not notice any difference. > > I'd gladly welcome any comments or suggestions. As I said, I am really happy about your plan. I am looking forward to seeing it implemented! Bye, and thanks again. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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