Re: Nouveau packaging
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 21:19:55 +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote:
> Dear X maintainers,
>
> I'm considering uploading packages for the Nouveau drivers to
> experimental. The summary of the discussion is attached to bug #418889.
> The packages were adapted by Chris Lamb from Christopher Rogers' Ubuntu
> PPA packages.
>
Thanks for this work. I haven't looked into the packages at all, so
here are just quick comments.
> The current packages are at:
>
> http://chris-lamb.co.uk/debian/libdrm-snapshot_2.3.1~git%2b20080530%2b6e8a2cf-1.dsc
> http://chris-lamb.co.uk/debian/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau_0.0.10~git%2b20080526%2be034616-1.dsc
>
I'd rename the drm package to just 'drm-snapshot', since you provide the
kernel modules as well as the lib.
It seems there's a problem with libdrm, though, if you provide
libdrm.so.2 you'll have to conflict with the libdrm2 package from
unstable, and then the driver won't be installable together with the x
server? If someone can check that the only symbols missing from the
snapshot version of the lib are TTM-related, maybe it'd be better to
just call it libdrm2? (I know I've said the opposite before, but I
thought the removed symbols were being used.)
The nouveau package description needs to be fixed to not refer to it as
an X.Org driver, too, and point to nouveau.freedesktop.org instead of
xorg.freedesktop.org.
> They need Replaces/Conflits/Provides fixing.
>
> Would you like this maintained as part of the XSF and do you have any
> other comments before I upload them?
>
Whatever you prefer is fine by me.
Cheers,
Julien
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