Bug#139817: marked as done (xfree86: wanted: dri-source package to build kernel modules with)
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From: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
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Subject: please provide some dri-source package
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The Xfree source is said to contain the source for kernel drm modules
matching the Xfree dri modules. It would be great to have those in a
package, just as other kernel modules are shipped - looks like current
practice is to just install the tgz in /usr/src/modules/
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From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: xfree86: wanted: dri-source package to build kernel modules with
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I'm tagging this bug wontfix and closing it, and am reverting the
changes in the XFree86 4.3.0 experimental packages that provide it.
My reasons are:
* The packaging was sloppily implemented and recently broken by the
implementer (as can be seen in 4.3.0-0pre1v2). The person responsible
for it therefore appears to no longer have time to maintain it
properly. This factor combines with the following.
* There is no upstream support for installing the kernel module sources
onto the system (i.e., "make install" completely ignores these files).
We have to kludge our own solution, which is prone to errors (see
above).
* The DRI modules in recent versions of the Linux 2.4 kernel are at
least as up to date as the sources in XFree86 4.3.0 (or so I am told).
* XFree86 upstream uses an external source for the Linux kernel DRI
modules anyway, so really all you're getting from this package is a
snapshot, which given the slow pace of XFree86 releases combined with
the slow pace of Debian packaging of those releases, means the kernel
module sources provided will be quite out of date, more often than
not.
For all of the above reasons, I do not think the best course of action
is to provide a DRI kernel modules source-code package from the xfree86
Debian source package.
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