Re: Drivers for Debian Unstable

[Flavio Stanchina <flavio at stanchina dot net>]

Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Do you know what the purpose of an ITP is?

Yes, roughly (http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/), but I thought it is
appropriate to file ITPs only if you are a DD.

> Would you be prepared to bring the packages in shape suitable for upload
> to the Debian non-free archive and maintain (i.e. mostly deal with bug
> reports entered in the Debian BTS against them; although, we could just
> as well forward those to this list) them though? If so, one of the DDs
> here (or any other DD, for that matter) could sponsor the uploads.

That would be fine with me; I would especially love to take advantage of 
the Debian BTS and have bug reports handled in a more formal way.

I don't know exactly what "sponsoring" means here: would the relevant DD 
upload the packages, or would he/she use his/her DD powers to set me up 
so that I would be able to upload them myself?

I think the packages are mostly in shape AFAICT, there are only two 
things I'd spend some time on:
- unpacking the RPM and making a proper .orig.tar.gz instead of
  having debian/rules download it at build time. I guess we'd put
  in the archive only one version of the packages that installs
  the driver for the current XFree86 release.
- I don't know how we could deal with different .orig.tar.gz's
  for the two supported architectures (i386 and amd64).

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Ciao, Flavio