Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luca Boccassi <luca.bocca...@gmail.com>
* Package name : libglvnd Version : 0~20160122 Upstream Author : NVIDIA Corporation * URL : https://github.com/NVIDIA/libglvnd * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : Vendor-neutral OpenGL dispatch layer libglvnd is a Vendor-neutral dispatch layer for arbitrating OpenGL API calls between multiple vendors on a per-screen basis. Currently, only the GLX window-system API and OpenGL are supported, but in the future this library may support EGL and OpenGL ES as well. I am one of the pkg-nvidia maintainers, and we would like to use this ITP to start a discussion about packaging libglvnd with the maintainers of Mesa, X and fglrx. As you might have read news about, NVIDIA has been working on an open source (MIT-like license) vendor-neutral dispatch layer for OpenGL. They have now declared it stable, and their proprietary graphics driver started using it in version 361 [1]. It has been reported that AMD is interested in supporting this library too [2]. Finally, following a discussion on the upstream Mesa mailing list [3], it has been reported that work is in progress in Mesa too to support this library [4]. Our proposal would be to wait to upload this package until a version of Mesa that can make use of it is released. Then, as a a possible example, we could upload both to Debian experimental, and at the same time switch the proprietary Nvidia drivers to use it, and see how it works. When fglrx gets there too, we should then be able to stop using glx-alternatives-* packages. My proposal for the packaging itself can be found on pkg-nvidia's git [5]. Given upstream doesn't seem to do release tagging, I'm using the 0~<LAST-COMMIT-DATE> format. I split each .so in an individual binary and -dbg package, called *-glvnd[-dbg], plus a common libglvnd-dev. Figuring out precisely the licensing was the fun part, as the code is a mixture of Expat, MIT-like, BSD 1-clause and 3-clause, GPL3 and GNU-permissive :-) Comments? Opinions? ACKs/NACKs? Kind regards, Luca Boccassi [1] https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/908423 [2] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Looking-At-GLVND [3] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2015-September/095856.html [4] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-Will-Do-GLVND [5] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-nvidia/libglvnd.git
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