Re: Future direction of Debian XFree86 packaging (was: 4.3.0 progress / desire to help)
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 10:31:17PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 01:51:34PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > BTW, some time back i asked for the addition of a xfree86-driver-sdk
> > package so that driver packages could be easily built from xfree86 cvs.
> > At that time you told me it would not be included in 4.3.0-1, but maybe
> > a later version. Is this still of actuality ?
>
> Looking like it, given I barely have enough time to even merge the
> people/{branden,daniel} trees in Subversion.
Err, the idea was of me sending you a patch implementing it.
> > I have played a bit with the SDK thingy, and i think the best way to
> > handle this is to create a sdk tarball that other packages can then
> > uncompress if needed. Does this make sense, or do you (and Branden)
> > prefer another solution.
>
> Fair enough, doesn't sound too bad an idea. I'll investigate exactly how
> everything works first before giving a final answer, though, so don't
> take this as gospel.
Ok, i will try generating the patch this weekend.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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