Hi! There is currently an ITP to package nouveau: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418889 However, Matthew seems to not have time yet to package nouveau. I would like to help a bit. nouveau needs an up-to-date mesa (7.3.0) that we already have in Debian. It also needs an up-to-date libdrm (current git, 2.3.0 is not ok) that we don't have in Debian. Moreover, from libdrm, we should build "nouveau-kernel-source". And at least, there is the driver part that should be built and it seems quite easy. The hard part is libdrm. I have tried to work from the current git repository on alioth, but the modifications done in debian-* branches look quite strange to me. If I look at the diff between debian-unstable and upstream-unstable (or -experimental, they are almost in sync), I discover that some directories are removed (bsd-core, linux-core, scripts). Current git of libdrm now uses symbolic links between shared-core and linux-core. Because of this combination, I have difficulties to simply merge upstream-experimental (updated with HEAD from upstream) into debian-experimental. I am not good enough with git to succeed. Moreover, when a file has been removed and has not been changed, it is removed and I need the content of linux-core to be able to build nouveau-kernel-source package. Therefore, I am a bit stuck. What is the proper way to handle this with git? Would it be OK to restore the full content of upstream into libdrm? Thanks. -- BOFH excuse #375: Root name servers corrupted.
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