Re: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau update in experimental?

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2010-12-23 17:05 +0100, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Everything is ready in the debian-experimental branches in git, so if
>> you want to build it yourself, you can.  Build libdrm first, then
>> (preferably in a chroot, so you don't have to temporarily uninstall
>> packages) xserver-xorg-video-nouveau.  I am a few commits behind,
>> "debian/rules get-orig-source" will give you the latest upstream code
>> though.
>
> I need more detailed instructions than this.  For instance, I have no
> idea where your git repositories are.

See the Vcs-Git field in the source packages.  If you have the
devscripts package installed, you don't even need to look at that and
can simply run "debcheckout <package>" to clone the repository.  The
default branch is debian-unstable, you need to switch to the
debian-experimental branch with "git checkout debian-experimental".

Obtaining libdrm_2.4.23.orig.tar.gz is most easily done with uscan from
the devscripts package, or download
http://dri.freedesktop.org/libdrm/libdrm-2.4.23.tar.gz manually.

For xserver-xorg-video-nouveau we store the tarballs in a pristine-tar
branch, you can recreate the latest with "pristine-tar checkout \
../xserver-xorg-video-nouveau_0.0.16+git20101210+8bb8231.orig.tar.gz".
Or create a snapshot yourself with "debian/rules get-orig-source" which
has the advantage that you work with the very latest upstream source.

Cheers,
       Sven