On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 09:40:01 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > Le jeudi 26 septembre 2013 à 23:26 +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit : > > > we (the debian X Strike Force) are thinking of removing the following > > packages from the archive, unless somebody steps up (soon) to take care > > of them. The reason is they see 0 testing, nobody maintains them > > upstream, if you're lucky people keep some of them building when APIs > > change, if you're very lucky they get a release with all the build fixes > > once in a while, and it's likely most of them don't have any users > > anymore. While it would probably be easy to get them to stop FTBFS > > right now, it doesn't seem worth it to keep all of those drivers around > > with the maintenance overhead that comes with that if nobody's going to > > notice anyway. So please speak up if you want to see one of these in > > jessie. > > I have an old laptop which needs xserver-xorg-video-sis, so I would not > mind having this driver supported for one more release. I can provide > some help (e.g. testing on my specific hardware) if needed. On the other > hand, if keeping this driver is a lot of work, it's probably not worth > the trouble. > git master doesn't seem to build right now. > ../../src/sis_driver.c: In function 'SISMergedPointerMoved': > ../../src/sis_driver.c:9384:13: error: too few arguments to function 'miPointerSetPosition' > miPointerSetPosition(inputInfo.pointer, Absolute, &dx, &dy); > ^ > In file included from /usr/include/xorg/xf86Cursor.h:6:0, > from ../../src/sis.h:83, > from ../../src/sis_driver.c:50: > /usr/include/xorg/mipointer.h:118:1: note: declared here > miPointerSetPosition(DeviceIntPtr pDev, int mode, double *x, double *y, > ^ > ../../src/sis_driver.c: In function 'SiS_GetSetBIOSScratch': > ../../src/sis_driver.c:14022:8: warning: 'xf86MapVidMem' is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/xorg/xf86_OSproc.h:135) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] > base = xf86MapVidMem(pScrn->scrnIndex, VIDMEM_MMIO, 0, 0x2000); > ^ > ../../src/sis_driver.c:14035:8: warning: 'xf86UnMapVidMem' is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/xorg/xf86_OSproc.h:137) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] > xf86UnMapVidMem(pScrn->scrnIndex, base, 0x2000); > ^ > make[3]: *** [sis_driver.lo] Error 1 So I guess a prerequisite would be to fix that... Cheers, Julien
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