On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 01:52:12AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Hope you don't mind if I CC my reply to the Debian X mailing list. > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:28:54AM -0700, Terence Ripperda wrote: > > I'm from NVIDIA, working on our 2d/3d drivers. Now that there are XFree86 > > 4.0.1 > > packages in development, I'm looking at getting some .deb packages together > > for > > our drivers. I was looking at what you had so far for xfree86 and mesa/glx. > > I > > had a couple of requests: > > > > libGLU - will you be providing the libGLU library as part of the xlibmesa > > package, or seperately. It seems like it would be better for libGLU to be > > seperate > > from libGL, sort of like libglut is, since it's not really dependent on a > > specific > > version of libGL (or it shouldn't be). > > It is my intention to defer to the SGI OpenGL Linux ABI standard. That > says that two shared libraries should be provided: libGL.so.1 and > libGLU.so.1; that XFree86 currently builds the former but not the latter is > an issue that they are working to rectify. Once they have done so, I will > be shipping libGLU in the "xlibmesa3" library (and its headers and static > vesion in "xlibmesa3-dev"). > > There is not yet official Debian policy on this matter, but I'm starting to > realize we need one. I think Debian should follow the existing standard as > drafted by SGI; any additional shared libraries not covered by that ABI > should be > shipped in separate Debian packages, so that all ABI-compliant > implementations can Provide: the virtual package "libgl1". > > Brian Paul advised me to ship libOSMesa with xlibmesa, but in light of the > fact that some GL implementations might not have that, I'm going to deviate > just a little bit from his advice. I will be moving this library back out > into an "xlibosmesa" package.
what about the libGLw libraries, i take it Brian Paul also wants them to be included in the Xfree gl libs. About non-free driver implementation, i guess a divert or something such would be nicest, isn't it. it would depend on the appropriate xfree packages (xlibmesa for the GL files, xserver-xfree86 for the driver) and divert the xfree provided GL libraries and driver, and also the kernel module, if there is one. How many non-free drivers packages are there, and who is willing to package them ? I know of drivers from NVIDIA, as well as matrox, but the later are being folded back into Xfree. There is ATI also, i guess. Friendly, Sven LUTHER
