Bug#715398: please add a bbswitch-source package

2013-07-12 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:53 PM, David Kalnischkies wrote: > In that case the dependency of bumblebee needs a: > bbswitch-dkms | bbswitch-source > and bumblebee-nvidia needs to accept m-a compiled nvidia modules. > That would be something like: | nvidia-kernel-319.32 (and all the others). > Bu

Bug#715398: please add a bbswitch-source package

2013-07-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote: > You know m-a much better than I do Ha! I might be listed as Uploader, but that's because people ignore me. I have no idea what I am doing (as I don't know perl) and therefore said that this is a one-time NMU to fix bug … worked perfectly (n

Bug#715398: please add a bbswitch-source package

2013-07-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > David Kalnischkies writes: >> For me personally, its mostly that I can't easily share the modules with >> people who I can't let modules install by themselves (dkms kills the >> module in each kernel version on upgrade of the module by design

Bug#715398: please add a bbswitch-source package

2013-07-11 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2013-07-11 12:43, Vincent Cheng wrote: > Ack, thanks for the patch! To be honest I have no experience with > module-assistant at all, so I've pretty much just taken your patch > as-is (committed to git now, will make an upload shortly). > IIRC Aron's rationale for changing it to linux-any inste

Bug#715398: please add a bbswitch-source package

2013-07-11 Thread Vincent Cheng
Control: tag -1 pending Hi David, On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:10 PM, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Source: bbswitch > Version: 0.7-1 > Severity: wishlist > > Hello bbswitch/NVIDIA Maintainers, > > > Currently src:bbswitch builds only a bbswitch-dkms package for usage with > dkms tools. It would be n

Bug#715398: please add a bbswitch-source package

2013-07-11 Thread Russ Allbery
David Kalnischkies writes: > I guess the old arguments pro and cons for both are still mostly valid: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/02/msg00411.html > Message-id: <4d58595a.3030...@debian.org> Ah, okay, some of the caveats around what kernels the module is built for are interesting

Bug#715398: please add a bbswitch-source package

2013-07-08 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > David Kalnischkies writes: > >> Currently src:bbswitch builds only a bbswitch-dkms package for usage >> with dkms tools. It would be nice if you could add a bbswitch-source >> package for module-assistant so that users can build proper debian

Bug#715398: please add a bbswitch-source package

2013-07-08 Thread Russ Allbery
David Kalnischkies writes: > Currently src:bbswitch builds only a bbswitch-dkms package for usage > with dkms tools. It would be nice if you could add a bbswitch-source > package for module-assistant so that users can build proper debian > packages for the bbswitch module for the kernel they use.

Bug#715398: please add a bbswitch-source package

2013-07-08 Thread David Kalnischkies
Source: bbswitch Version: 0.7-1 Severity: wishlist Hello bbswitch/NVIDIA Maintainers, Currently src:bbswitch builds only a bbswitch-dkms package for usage with dkms tools. It would be nice if you could add a bbswitch-source package for module-assistant so that users can build proper debian packa