On 01.12.2016 15:32, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:33:44 +0000 Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> wrote: >> Control: owner -1 tjaalton@debian.org >> >> On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 09:46 +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote: >>> 24.01.2016, 20:34, Luca Boccassi kirjoitti: >>>> * Package name : libglvnd >>>> Version : 0~20160122 >>>> Upstream Author : NVIDIA Corporation >>>> * URL : https://github.com/NVIDIA/libglvnd >>>> * License : MIT >>>> Programming Lang: C >>>> Description : Vendor-neutral OpenGL dispatch layer >>>> >>>> libglvnd is a Vendor-neutral dispatch layer for arbitrating OpenGL API >>>> calls between multiple vendors on a per-screen basis. >>>> Currently, only the GLX window-system API and OpenGL are supported, but >>>> in the future this library may support EGL and OpenGL ES as well. >>>> >>>> >>>> I am one of the pkg-nvidia maintainers, and we would like to use this >>>> ITP to start a discussion about packaging libglvnd with the maintainers >>>> of Mesa, X and fglrx. >>>> >>>> As you might have read news about, NVIDIA has been working on an open >>>> source (MIT-like license) vendor-neutral dispatch layer for OpenGL. They >>>> have now declared it stable, and their proprietary graphics driver >>>> started using it in version 361 [1]. >>>> >>>> It has been reported that AMD is interested in supporting this library >>>> too [2]. >>>> >>>> Finally, following a discussion on the upstream Mesa mailing list [3], >>>> it has been reported that work is in progress in Mesa too to support >>>> this library [4]. >>>> >>>> Our proposal would be to wait to upload this package until a version of >>>> Mesa that can make use of it is released. Then, as a a possible example, >>>> we could upload both to Debian experimental, and at the same time switch >>>> the proprietary Nvidia drivers to use it, and see how it works. When >>>> fglrx gets there too, we should then be able to stop using >>>> glx-alternatives-* packages. >>>> >>>> My proposal for the packaging itself can be found on pkg-nvidia's git >>>> [5]. Given upstream doesn't seem to do release tagging, I'm using the >>>> 0~<LAST-COMMIT-DATE> format. I split each .so in an individual binary >>>> and -dbg package, called *-glvnd[-dbg], plus a common libglvnd-dev. >>>> Figuring out precisely the licensing was the fun part, as the code is a >>>> mixture of Expat, MIT-like, BSD 1-clause and 3-clause, GPL3 and >>>> GNU-permissive :-) >>>> >>>> Comments? Opinions? ACKs/NACKs? >>> >>> packaging available at >>> >>> git://git.debian.org/pkg-xorg/lib/libglvnd.git >>> >>> but since it hasn't been of any use there was no ITP filed, so thanks >>> for that :) >>> >>> it's not final of course, tests fail and there are probably other issues >>> too.. > > Hi Timo, > > Any news on uploading this to Stretch? > > I think upstream Mesa has some initial support merged: > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2016-May/116346.html > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/src/glx/glxglvnd.c Yes, libglvnd had some packaging issues which I think are now solved in git. I'll probably upload it to experimental soon. -- t
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