Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

[Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208@gmail.com>]

Just a quick followup...

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Aron Xu <aron@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Aron, I'm unsure if you're aware of the pull request I've made
>>> upstream [1], but if you have anything you want changed upstream,
>>> please feel free to jump into the conversation. I think by now we've
>>> sorted out more or less all of the remaining issues that are blocking
>>> the merge of the Debian-specific stuff, but if there's anything I
>>> missed, now's your chance to let upstream know.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Vincent
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bumblebee-ppa/pull/10
>>
>> I'm ready to sponsor current version of bumblebee, but I'd like to
>> wait for your confirmation in case you have some action to do with
>> upstream changes. I committed a small change to bumblebee.preinst,
>> replacing "Ubuntu" with "the system" so that it can be vendor
>> agnostic. If this needs to be forwarded upstream then please do me a
>> favor, thanks.
>
> I'll make a note of that change to be forwarded upstream (together
> with the virtualgl stuff).

Upstream decided to drop the preinst file (which I was hoping for
too), so the above change is no longer relevant anymore.

> I intend to upload a new version of primus first (with the changes
> made by upstream in [1]). Bumblebee is pretty much done at this point,
> so feel free to go ahead and upload it as is, but it's not going to be
> very useful without primus. Then again, I expect that
> bbswitch+bumblebee will sit in the NEW queue for a while, so it's not
> like it'll make a difference in the end. :P

There's been quite a restructuring of the primus packaging lately,
done by upstream; primus now queries the bumblebee daemon when it
comes to picking nouveau/nvidia, instead of relying on environment
variables set in primusrun, so we can now drop primus-nvidia, the
duplicate primusrun scripts, and the maintainer scripts / use of the
alternatives system (i.e. simplifies things a _lot_). However that
also depends on a few changes to bumblebee as well. Hence, would you
be willing to upload the latest bumblebee + primus code from
upstream's git repos (rather than the current stable bumblebee 3.1
release)? (fwiw primus has never really seen a formal 'stable'
release, so it doesn't really matter for primus)

As an aside, I made a comment about the current architecture field of
bbswitch after Ratesh uploaded 0.6, but I suppose you may have missed
them:

"Also, why did you opt for Architecture: linux-any for a dkms package?
Everything inside the binary package is installed into an
arch-independent  location, so I think it should probably be arch:all
instead, and most dkms packages [1] adhere to being arch:all,
including dkms itself. But since you've  explicitly moved the package
from arch:all to arch:linux-any, I'll just leave it be..."

There's also the issue that Nvidia Optimus is a feature included only
with Intel+Nvidia AFAIK, hence bbswitch+bumblebee+primus is really
only useful on i386 and amd64 anyways.

Vincent