On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:32:00PM -0800, Michael Cardenas wrote: > First off, I'd like to say thank you to Branden for your amazing > work. I've been working on your debs for the last few days, and they > build flawlessly. Glad to hear it! > I've been asked by my employer to backport the Intel i845 2d driver so > that we can support it in our next release, and so I did. For anyone > interested, the patch is attached. I didn't follow your naming scheme > exactly, so the patch is not 000 even though it's stolen_from_HEAD. I > did this because I didn't want to have to adjust all of your other > patches which were complaining about offsets, just to get the debs to > compile. No problem, I'll pick those nits. > One problem I did encounter is that when I do a "dpkg-buildpackage > -nc" the object files still seem to get cleaned. Is there something > I'm misunderstanding? Hmm, I never use the "-nc" option, so I am not sure. I'm pretty sure my rules file isn't written wrongly in this respect. > For now, I've only done the most basic testing. RedHat backported the > same driver and includes it in limbo, which I believe is rh8, so it > must be somewhat stable. As I get more results from our testing dept, > I will forward them to you, if you're interested. Yes, please. I'll see if I can get this into 4.2.1-4. Thanks for your efforts. -- G. Branden Robinson | The best place to hide something is Debian GNU/Linux | in documentation. branden@debian.org | -- Ethan Benson http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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