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Re: libdrm 2.4.23, new nouveau snapshot and mesa (was: nmu: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau_1:0.0.16+git20100825+390f1c8-2)



On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 19:24:57 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:

> On 2010-12-06 08:28 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> 
> > However, as soon as libdrm 2.4.23 gets released (which should happen by
> > the end of year, along with xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.14), I will
> > prepare a new nouveau snapshot, and current git already requires X
> > server 1.8 or later.
> 
> The libdrm 2.4.23 release has already happened, earlier than I expected.
> Since upstream broke the ABI (without changing soname, of course) as

Sigh.  Is there no way to convince them to bump soname when they do
that?

> well as the API of libdrm-nouveau, and a new nouveau snapshot depends on
> the new API, I propose to proceed as following:
> 
> - Upload libdrm 2.4.23 to experimental, renaming the libdrm-nouveau1
>   package to libdrm-nouveau1a.
> 
> - When the FTP masters accept libdrm 2.4.23, upload a new nouveau
>   snapshot and a new mesa package with commit c25fcf5aa¹ cherry-picked
>   from master.
> 
> Does this sound like a reasonable plan?
> 
Sounds ok to me, thanks.

Cheers,
Julien

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