Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-11 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Aron Xu wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote: >> Just for the record, here are some source packages (taken directly >> from latest pkg-nvidia git) for your convenience: >> >> http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~b2c8/debian/pkg-nvidia-20130409/bum

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-10 Thread Aron Xu
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote: > Just for the record, here are some source packages (taken directly > from latest pkg-nvidia git) for your convenience: > > http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~b2c8/debian/pkg-nvidia-20130409/bumblebee_3.1-1.dsc > http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~b2c8/debi

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-09 Thread Vincent Cheng
Just for the record, here are some source packages (taken directly from latest pkg-nvidia git) for your convenience: http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~b2c8/debian/pkg-nvidia-20130409/bumblebee_3.1-1.dsc http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~b2c8/debian/pkg-nvidia-20130409/primus_0~20130225-1.dsc They're targeted

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-09 Thread Vincent Cheng
First off, sorry for the slow replies lately... On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Aron Xu wrote: > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Aron Xu wrote: >> [snip] >>> Then could you add it to Debian's git repo? >> >> Done. But in the process of bui

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-09 Thread Aron Xu
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote: > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Aron Xu wrote: > [snip] >> Then could you add it to Debian's git repo? > > Done. But in the process of building the packages I hit another issue > [1], so please hold off (yet again) on uploading primus until i

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-04 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Aron Xu wrote: [snip] > Then could you add it to Debian's git repo? Done. But in the process of building the packages I hit another issue [1], so please hold off (yet again) on uploading primus until it gets fixed. >> As an aside, I made a comment about the curren

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-03 Thread Aron Xu
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote: > Just a quick followup... > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Vincent Cheng wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Aron Xu wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Vincent Cheng >>> wrote: Aron, I'm unsure if you're aware

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-03 Thread Vincent Cheng
Just a quick followup... On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Vincent Cheng wrote: > On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Aron Xu wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Vincent Cheng >> wrote: >>> >>> Aron, I'm unsure if you're aware of the pull request I've made >>> upstream [1], but if you have

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-01 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Aron Xu wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Vincent Cheng wrote: >> >> Aron, I'm unsure if you're aware of the pull request I've made >> upstream [1], but if you have anything you want changed upstream, >> please feel free to jump into the conversation. I t

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-03-31 Thread Aron Xu
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Vincent Cheng wrote: > > Aron, I'm unsure if you're aware of the pull request I've made > upstream [1], but if you have anything you want changed upstream, > please feel free to jump into the conversation. I think by now we've > sorted out more or less all of the r

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-03-23 Thread Vincent Cheng
Hi, On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > As much as I want and will use bumblebee, I do not agree with the > justification. Let's just disagree. :-) > You sponsor the packages bumblebee and primus so that it gets in the queue. Fair enough. Regardless, thanks for taking t

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-03-23 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Saturday 23 March 2013 06:13 PM, Aron Xu wrote: > I've cut off quotes as my reply does not apply to specific sentences... > > I agree that keeping a package simple have benefits, but I don't think > making our life harder is a good reason to cut

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-03-23 Thread Aron Xu
Hi Ritesh, Vincent, I've cut off quotes as my reply does not apply to specific sentences... I agree that keeping a package simple have benefits, but I don't think making our life harder is a good reason to cut down such stuff. Our current packaging are largely based on upstream's efforts, and we

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-03-23 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Vincent, There might be merits of following the Ubuntu + Debian route _today_. Maybe. But for the project, I fail to see the benefits. I do not see myself convinced to mix packaging decisions for 2 different distributions with different intent. Take a look at the Dependencies in bumblebee-nvidia:

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-03-23 Thread Vincent Cheng
[Whoops, hit "reply" instead of "reply to all". It's gmail's fault.] On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Saturday 23 March 2013 03:02 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote: >> I see no harm in trying to make my package compatible with both Debian >> and Ubuntu, as long as the changes