On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 10:36:23AM -0400, Sanford Rockowitz wrote:
> ddcutil 1.1.0 was uploaded to mentors on 4/22.  Per the sponsor (Andrey
> Rahmatulin) it was not moved to sid because of the freeze for Bullseye.
If the package doesn't work with the bullseye kernel it's a grave bug, not
important, and the package should be fixed (or removed).
Ti be eligible for bullseye the update should be a minimal patch added to
the bullseye version.
What do you think?


> On 5/14/21 1:10 AM, Joris wrote:
> > Package: ddcutil
> > Version: 0.9.9-2
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: upstream
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: jo...@v5.be
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: bullseye/sid
> >    APT prefers testing-security
> >    APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
> > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> > 
> > Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
> > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
> > LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> > LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> > 
> > Versions of packages ddcutil depends on:
> > ii  i2c-tools     4.2-1+b1
> > ii  libc6         2.31-11
> > ii  libdrm2       2.4.104-1
> > ii  libglib2.0-0  2.66.8-1
> > ii  libudev1      247.3-5
> > ii  libx11-6      2:1.7.0-2
> > ii  libxrandr2    2:1.5.1-1
> > ii  pci.ids       0.0~2021.02.08-1
> > ii  usb.ids       2021.03.31-1
> > ii  usbutils      1:013-3
> > 
> > ddcutil recommends no packages.
> > 
> > ddcutil suggests no packages.
> > 
> > -- no debconf information
> > 
> > 
> > >From the release information on ddcutil 
> > >(http://www.ddcutil.com/release_notes/) it seems Linux kernel 5.10 made 
> > >changes. They are listed as "docking stations" but in my experience also 
> > >apply to directly connected HDMI and Thunderbolt displays.
> > Ddcutil 1.0.1 and 1.1.0 include workarounds for this kernel. On my system 
> > bringing back the same capabilities I had under kernel 5.8, whereas with 
> > ddcutil 0.9.9 on kernel 5.10 there was simply no device detected.
> > 
> > As 5.10 seems to be the default in the upcoming Debian release, it would be 
> > very nice to get ddcutil updated as well.
> > I had no issue building ddcutil from source.
> > 
> 
> 

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