On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 16:42, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:12:49PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 03:08:44PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 14:51, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 02:49:07PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 09:20, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > > > I don't think we should be forcing users to use an experimental snapshot > > > > > > package to get bugfixes for issues like that, personally. I mean, it's > > > > > > not like our tree is completely virginal anyway. ;) > > > > > > > > > > IMHO, the driver snapshot packages would completely remove the need to > > > > > include bleeding edge drivers in the release packages. Bugfixes should > > > > > be backported if necessary. > > And they should go in the bufix branch, not the head branch.
Sure. > > > > The Savage drivers have regular "stable" tarball releases. > > > > > > Still doesn't make them part of the 4.3.0 release, does it? Make > > > separate packages for them then? > > > > Yeah, I might SDK it. OTOH, I might just let Sven do his snapshot SDK > > stuff, and deal. I have a Radeon at home, and a PowerPC GeForce4 and an > > i845G at work, they all work, sooo ... ;) > > The advantage of the SDK, is that i can then make CVS head driver > snapshots, but someone else can then also make regular "stable" savage > drivers packages. Or someone at ATI or Nvidia could make closed sources > .debs using said packages. > > It would be best if the drivers be split out then, but i suppose even > with a split out drivers package, this could cause problems, until we > split each driver in its own package, as someone (Michel) recomended in > the past. Actually, I didn't, I only thought about one package for all drivers. > The other way would be for the driver packages to divert the > drivers from the official xserver-xfree86 package. That might still be a solution for additional single driver packages. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
