Re: how to continue with xserver-xorg-video-nv?
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 02:44:20PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 9, 2006 at 13:58:22 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
>
> > [Please Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed]
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > what is the plan to continue with this package? AFAICS, there are two
> > options:
> >
> > 1. The maintainers are happy enough with this code, and think that it
> > qualifies the DFSG. In this case, the bug report should be
> > closed/downgraded.
> > 2. We move xserver-xorg-video-nv to non-free, and xserver-xorg-video-all
> > to contrib (the source for a contrib package can still be in main).
> >
> 3. move -video-nv to non-free, and remove the dependency from -video-all
> (maybe add a Suggests instead). This looks to me like the most
> practical way to give users an upgrade path from the monolith (for users
> of non-nvidia hardware, at least). If this is chosen, something should
> probably be added to the release notes to warn nv users.
Yes, if we were to move -nv to non-free this would be my choice as well.
- David Nusinow
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