On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 09:46 +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote: > 24.01.2016, 20:34, Luca Boccassi kirjoitti: > > 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? > > packaging available at > > git://git.debian.org/pkg-xorg/lib/libglvnd.git > > but since it hasn't been of any use there was no ITP filed, so thanks > for that :)
Ah my bad, I checked for ITPs/bugs but not on the repos! Please feel free to take ownership of this bug :-) If it's possible, when Mesa supports glvnd and that package will be uploaded, could you please give us a heads up at pkg-nvidia-devel and pkg-fglrx-devel? I know it's not going to happen for a good while, but we'll try and be ready :-) > it's not final of course, tests fail and there are probably other issues > too.. AFAIK the tests require a running X instance, so they aren't going to work on buildd machines I'm afraid. I turned them off in the rules. Would you accept a couple of patches? I could provide one to build debug symbols packages and one for the copyright file. There are a mix of licenses, and I tried hard to tag the files that don't use the Expat, which seems to be the main one. There's a lot of files under BSD (1 and 3 clause) and a few m4 macros under GPL3. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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