Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-11 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Aron Xu a...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: Just for the record, here are some source packages (taken directly from latest pkg-nvidia git) for your convenience:

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-10 Thread Aron Xu
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: Just for the record, here are some source packages (taken directly from latest pkg-nvidia git) for your convenience: http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~b2c8/debian/pkg-nvidia-20130409/bumblebee_3.1-1.dsc

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-09 Thread Aron Xu
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Aron Xu a...@debian.org wrote: [snip] Then could you add it to Debian's git repo? Done. But in the process of building the packages I hit another issue [1], so please hold off (yet

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-09 Thread Vincent Cheng
First off, sorry for the slow replies lately... On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Aron Xu a...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Aron Xu a...@debian.org wrote: [snip] Then could you add it to Debian's

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-09 Thread Vincent Cheng
Just for the record, here are some source packages (taken directly from latest pkg-nvidia git) for your convenience: http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~b2c8/debian/pkg-nvidia-20130409/bumblebee_3.1-1.dsc http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~b2c8/debian/pkg-nvidia-20130409/primus_0~20130225-1.dsc They're

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-04 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Aron Xu a...@debian.org wrote: [snip] Then could you add it to Debian's git repo? Done. But in the process of building the packages I hit another issue [1], so please hold off (yet again) on uploading primus until it gets fixed. As an aside, I made a comment

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-03 Thread Vincent Cheng
Just a quick followup... On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Aron Xu a...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: Aron, I'm unsure if you're aware of the pull

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-03 Thread Aron Xu
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: Just a quick followup... On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Aron Xu a...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Vincent Cheng

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-04-01 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Aron Xu a...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: Aron, I'm unsure if you're aware of the pull request I've made upstream [1], but if you have anything you want changed upstream, please feel free to

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-03-31 Thread Aron Xu
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: Aron, I'm unsure if you're aware of the pull request I've made upstream [1], but if you have anything you want changed upstream, please feel free to jump into the conversation. I think by now we've sorted out more or

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-03-23 Thread Vincent Cheng
[Whoops, hit reply instead of reply to all. It's gmail's fault.] On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf r...@researchut.com wrote: On Saturday 23 March 2013 03:02 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote: I see no harm in trying to make my package compatible with both Debian and Ubuntu, as long as

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-03-23 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Vincent, There might be merits of following the Ubuntu + Debian route _today_. Maybe. But for the project, I fail to see the benefits. I do not see myself convinced to mix packaging decisions for 2 different distributions with different intent. Take a look at the Dependencies in

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-03-23 Thread Aron Xu
Hi Ritesh, Vincent, I've cut off quotes as my reply does not apply to specific sentences... I agree that keeping a package simple have benefits, but I don't think making our life harder is a good reason to cut down such stuff. Our current packaging are largely based on upstream's efforts, and we

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-03-23 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Saturday 23 March 2013 06:13 PM, Aron Xu wrote: I've cut off quotes as my reply does not apply to specific sentences... I agree that keeping a package simple have benefits, but I don't think making our life harder is a good reason to cut

Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

2013-03-23 Thread Vincent Cheng
Hi, On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf r...@researchut.com wrote: As much as I want and will use bumblebee, I do not agree with the justification. Let's just disagree. :-) You sponsor the packages bumblebee and primus so that it gets in the queue. Fair enough. Regardless,