Re: Packaging nouveau

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 17:20:56 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:

> To summarize,  to push xserver-xorg-video-nouveau  into experimental, we
> need:
>  - libdrm git snapshot

drm. not just libdrm.

>  - mesa git snapshot
> 
> Moreover, libdrm git snapshot will generate a module source package that
> will generate nouveau.ko and drm.ko. The latest one is incompatible with
> the one in current Debian kernel (2.6.25) and will override it.
> 
> At  least, they  need to  be kept  in  sync as  long as  nouveau is  not
> releasing. This seems a bit too much even for experimental. Maybe things
> will get settled when a new libdrm will be released.

I think it's fine for experimental, as long as the packager is aware
that it'll need quite some work to keep all the bits together, not just
the initial packaging.
I don't expect things to settle down this year, FWIW.

Cheers,
Julien