Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
> On 3/30/07, Anssi Hannula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Few days ago AMD released the version 8.35.5. The biggest change is the
>> completely new AMD Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition (amdcccle).
>>
>> However, there is one major stepback regarding the PLF packaging of the
>> new driver. The Control Center is only provided as a 32-bit binary and
>> the source code is not provided. The previous ATI Control Panel was
>> distributed with source code, so the x86_64 binary could be compiled
>> while building the package.
>>
>> As the packaging policy
> 
> pl-ease! I find many of these policies rather hypocrite and
> inconsistent. I really wouldn't mind if you go ahead and package it so
> it just works. You also have my blessing to use
> an "incoherent-version-in-changelog", a "invalid-build-requires" and a
> "not-standard-release-extension", or all at the same time.

Er.. with the "packaging policy" I just mean the way I have been
packaging the ati and nvidia packages so far.

> IMHO it's the user-experience that counts.

I agree, and that is why I posted this RFC. I'm asking how to modify my
"ATI packaging policy" so that I can update the ATI driver package.

> I'd greatly appreciate it
> when you document the area's where you needed to bend the rules a bit.

-- 
Anssi Hannula

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