On 2014-05-12 05:11, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I thought source packages in main could provide binary packages in
> contrib. Am I just making that up? If not, then the source package and
> library could go into main and just the nvidia-settings binary package
> into contrib.
That sounds like a solut
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Vincent Cheng writes:
>
>> From an user's perspective, if I "apt-get install nvidia-settings" and
>> it doesn't bring in a set of proprietary nvidia packages as
>> dependencies, then I can justifiably say nvidia-settings is RC-buggy
>> becaus
Vincent Cheng writes:
> From an user's perspective, if I "apt-get install nvidia-settings" and
> it doesn't bring in a set of proprietary nvidia packages as
> dependencies, then I can justifiably say nvidia-settings is RC-buggy
> because nvidia-settings is broken and useless in such a scenario.
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> The only possible solution I can think of is for Andreas to distribute
> nvidia-settings as two separate source packages, e.g. src:libxnvctrl
> in main that builds the shared lib and dev packages, and
> src:nvidia-settings in contrib that buil
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote:
>> 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
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> 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.
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Michael Gilbert 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'
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
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