Re: Packaging nouveau
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 22:57 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du dimanche 11 mai 2008, vers 17:29,
> Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> disait:
>
> > 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.
>
> I have packaged drm-snapshot which creates libdrm2, libdrm2-dev,
> libdrm2-dbg and nouveau-kernel-source.
If you're going through the trouble of reviving DRM snapshot packages,
please don't make them nouveau specific. DRM snapshots are useful for
other drivers as well.
> Maybe, I should rename binary package to state that they should be used
> only with nouveau. I mean, if someone installs libdrm2 from
> experimental, it will break every X video driver, except nouveau.
Why is that?
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