Re: Official debian paxkages

["Michel Dänzer" <daenzer at debian dot org>]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 16:03 +0200, Flavio Stanchina wrote:
> Flavio Stanchina wrote:
> > OK, I've prepared would-be official packages of 8.12.10:
> > http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian-official/fglrx-driver.html
> >
> > Tomorrow, time permitting, I'll take some time to file an ITP.
>
> I just discovered that an ITP for fglrx has been filed already:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=201734
>
> I couldn't find specific instructions on how to proceed in this case 
> (see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/), so I'm asking for suggestions. 
> I guess I should add my own message to the ITP saying that I have 
> packages ready and Michel is willing to sponsor the upload, but then we 
> could just upload packages and close the bug altogether.

You shouldn't do that but contact the submitter of the ITP and/or follow
up to it.


> * Checking with lintian: there are some errors caused by the binaries 
> ("shlib-with-non-pic-code", "unstripped-binary-or-object"), but we can't 
> fix them AFAIK as we don't have the sources; 

That's true for the former but not for the latter one. Just use
dh_strip, you may have to exclude some binaries though, e.g.
fglrx_drv.o.


> It is my opinion that the packages are ready to go into experimental, 
> where hopefully they'll get a piercing look by some smart people that 
> can spot problems and suggest improvements.

I basically agree, just one minor comment: There's no reason to believe
that the driver for X.org 6.8 wouldn't work with any future 6.8.x
releases.


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