Hi How dependent is the patched xorg code on the tigervnc source? Is it so that we could provide a -dev module from tigervnc that we could use from xorg source? In the past they have been extremely dependent on each other but I do not know if that has changed.
// Ola On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 03:33:33PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > I am happy with any approach. I am just more used to handling things > > with pristine-tar... > > yes -- this would probably be the easiest/most straightforward way at > the moment, so just keep it this way, and let me just blurb about this > alternative approach I had in mind: > > > I have just moved the git submodule code out of the way in favour of > > tarball imports with pristine-tar. As far as I understand, the xorg > > source has to be in the package, > > one shouldn't affect the other directly, although lack of > submodules support in pristine-tar (as far I see it being absent) might > be an obstacle. What I thought is to have > > xorg-server/ -- submodule in git > > orig.tar.gz tarball containing full source tree including content of > xorg-server/ > > so the problem (nuisance) only would be the fact that pristine-tar > seems to don't know (from a quick grep) about submodules so I guess its > delta would be quite big, thus reducing the convenience of having that > submodule in the first place. > > > For being +/- independent from pkg-xorg Git changes the pristine-tar > > approach is probably better. The probability that such a Git change > > might occur is rather low, though. > > sorry -- what kind of changes did you have in mind? > > atm everything seems to be "in sync": > > (git)novo:~/deb/perspect/tigervnc/pkg-tigervnc[master]git > $> diff --exclude .git -Naur xorg-server /tmp/xorg-server | lsdiff > $> GIT_DIR=/tmp/xorg-server/.git git describe > xorg-server-2_1.11.4-1 > > > -- > =------------------------------------------------------------------= > Keep in touch www.onerussian.com > Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic > -- --- Inguza Technology AB --- MSc in Information Technology ---- / o...@inguza.com Annebergsslingan 37 \ | o...@debian.org 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
