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Re: XSF revision 238



On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:12:44PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 20:40, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > IMO it's stupid to ship glu.h if we're not going to ship the rest of the
> > library.  
> 
> This change doesn't ship it though, does it?

Not in the package, but the fact that the upstream install rules think
it's getting shipped smacks of cognitive dissonance.

> > (Why can't XFree86 Build-Depend on libglu1-mesa-dev?)
> 
> Actually, I think it'd have to Build-Depend on libglu-dev for glxinfo.

Shouldn't those be the same thing, once GLU is killed off from XFree86's
own tree?

> > I object to killing off the X-forked GLU package at this point for that reason
> > and others.
> 
> I'm looking forward to hearing them.

I've shared some reasons in other recent mails.

> Anyway, I agree that the commit in this form was probably premature and
> we should work this out in a branch first.

I'm glad to see I am not alone in this opinion.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |    I'm sorry if the following sounds
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    combative and excessively personal,
branden@debian.org                 |    but that's my general style.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |    -- Ian Jackson

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