Re: Xserver 1.17 in unstable

[Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>]

2015-05-06 16:13 GMT+03:00 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>:
> On Wed, May  6, 2015 at 16:07:36 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>
>> 2015-05-06 15:22 GMT+03:00 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>:
>> > On Wed, May  6, 2015 at 12:40:51 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> >> Btw, I notice that XSF is still using Debhelper compatibility 8. Is
>> >> there any particular reason for foregoing compatibility 9?
>> >>
>> > Depends on the package.  I've been updating a few to debhelper compat 9
>> > recently.  For drivers however, at least when using dh_auto_configure,
>> > that requires overriding its multiarch libdir setting to keep things
>> > under /usr/lib/xorg/modules.  But there's no specific reason to avoid
>> > bumping to 9 AFAIK.
>>
>> The consequences of compatibility level 9 (automatically enforced
>> multiarch libdir) on drivers is precisely what I'm worried about. If
>> there is a standardized debian/rules stanza for overriding this for X
>> drivers, I would love to hear about it.
>>
> I've been using this:
>
> override_dh_auto_configure:
>         dh_auto_configure -- \
>                 --disable-silent-rules \
>                 --libdir=\$${exec_prefix}/lib
>
> See e.g.
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-xorg/driver/xserver-xorg-video-trident.git/commit/?id=713c309b94fa2084dee04def78924fbc7563d011

Thanks for the link to that code sample!  Implemented and ready to sponsor:

http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-geode/xserver-xorg-video-geode_2.11.16-9.dsc

Cheers!
Martin-Éric