On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Michael Gilbert <mgilb...@debian.org> wrote: > package: src:nvidia-settings > severity: wishlist > > Hi, chromium currently uses an embedded copy of libxnvctrl, and I > would prefer to link instead against a system version. > > I read through nvidia-settings copyright info, and it wasn't clear to > me why the package is in contrib. Would it be possible to move it to > main?
AFAIK, this package is in contrib because nvidia-settings is useless without the proprietary nvidia driver installed (nvidia-settings certainly doesn't work with nouveau), which satisfies the definition of "contrib" as per Policy 2.2.2. However...I'd like to note here that I happen to be the maintainer of conky, and linking against libxnvctrl was what prompted conky's move from main to contrib, and subsequently the split into two separate source packages (src:conky in main, src:conky-all in contrib), documented in #579102 in all its gory details. If nvidia-settings were to be moved to main, it would save me a lot of work (I would no longer have to maintain two separate source packages for conky; one that builds packages that links to libxnvctrl, and one that doesn't). Regards, Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
