Bug#568168: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau needs nouveau bits from libdrm
On 2010-03-30 00:08 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> (25/03/2010):
>> - We need something like Ubuntu's 01_include_snapshot_date patch to
>> ensure that NV_DRIVER_DATE is set to something meaningful when
>> building outside the Git repository. NV_DRIVER_DATE is only used to
>> print the driver date into Xorg's log file, so setting it to the empty
>> string is not the end of the world, but still not nice.
>
> Does picking build date sound OK, or do we want something really
> related to the last upstream commit? I can take care of it.
I think that using the last upstream commit is best. Bug reports in
Debian contain the package version which gives us all information, and
if somebody reports a bug upstream it is better not to give the false
impression that they have a current version when it is in fact horribly
outdated (from upstream's POV).
>> - Shipping an upstream changelog would be useful (could probably be
>> achieved with a suitable invocation of "git log").
>
> ACK. We already do that for other drivers. I'll take care of it.
I reworked the get-orig-source target to include it in the upstream
tarball, which nicely complements your change to add it to the
debian-experimental branch. :-)
Sven
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