nvidia packages and libvdpau...
hi there...
A few weeks ago, nvidia announced that their vdpau wrapper library was
going to be split/removed from the nvidia driver distribution
( first announced in : http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=138880)
Currently, all vdpau libraries are packaged with nvidia driver (in
particular nvidia-xxx-libvdpau)
Stephen Warren from nvidia submitted various bugs describing what
structure should be adopted, like here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180/+bug/432172
The main downside with the current nvidia / vdpau drivers as they are
packaged now, is that any packages built using VDPAU (mythtv,
mplayer), has a dependency on a specific nvidia drivers version.
As you can't switch graphic drivers easily...
I've built nvidia drivers without libvdpau, as per nvidia instructions
moving libvdpau to its own separate package.
I was wondering what is the best way to submit it to debian/ubuntu ?
Two modifications are required.
libvdpau package (that includes libvdpau0 and libvdpau-dev)
and the nvidia drivers to explicitely exclude libvdpau and
libvdpau_trace (or more accurately, not remove how they are included
now)...
Here is libvdpau package source code:
http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos/release/libvdpau_0.2-0ubuntu6.tar.gz
nvidia drivers for use with new libvdpau:
180.60
http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos/release/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180_180.60-0ubuntu9.tar.gz
185.18.36
http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos/release/nvidia-graphics-drivers-185_185.18.36-0ubuntu2.tar.gz
190.36
http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos/release/nvidia-graphics-drivers-190_190.36-0ubuntu6.tar.gz
Then all packages with a build dependency to nvidia-xxx-libvdpau-dev
should be changed to libvdpau-dev
And now packages should now directly reference any nvidia-xxx-libvdpau
package or link with libvdpau_nvidia.so
I'm happy to modify libvdpau package in any ways you see fit and
maintain it in the future...
Thank you
Jean-Yves
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