[Debichem-devel] Bug#673233: mesa: no longer builds libglw1-mesa

[Sven Joachim]

On 2012-05-17 11:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:

> Sven Joachim <svenjoac at gmx.de> (17/05/2012):
>> If nobody else wants to do it, I volunteer to prepare such a snapshot
>> in order to help getting mesa 8.0.x into wheezy, but I'm not going to
>> maintain glw since I don't use it.
>
> That would be appreciated.

An initial packaging attempt can be seen at
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/joachim-guest/glw.git.  It
builds, but otherwise it is untested.  I have followed the usual X
Strike Force packaging practices, except for debian/copyright which is
in DEP5 syntax.

> As far as reverse dependencies are concerned:
> | […]
> | Checking reverse dependencies...
> | # Broken Build-Depends:
> | arb/non-free: libglw1-mesa-dev
> | inventor: libglw1-mesa-dev
> | xmakemol: libglw1-mesa-dev
>
> It would be nice if the maintainers of those packages would step up to
> maintain the bits they need.

Those are welcome to clone the git repository above and test whether
their packages still build and/or work.

Cheers,
       Sven