[Pkg-fglrx-devel] [RFC] multiarch support for fglrx-driver

[Andreas Beckmann]

Hi,

I'm working on multiarch patches for fglrx-driver. this will require
some package splitting to move the libraries into some separate packages
that can be Multi-Arch: same.

fglrx-glx will be renamed to libgl1-fglrx-glx (to be in line with
libgl1-mesa-glx and libgl1-nvidia-glx), the old name will become a
transitional package

from fglrx-driver a libfglrx package will be split that contains the
libraries (or should that even better be a separate package for each
library or at least some of them?) a better name than libfglrx would be
welcome.

from fglrx-driver an xserver-xorg-video-fglrx package will be split that
contains the xorg modules

fglrx-driver will have versioned depends on these 2 new packages

is there anything else that should be separated from the fglrx-driver
package? e.g. fglrx-utils, libamdxvba-dev, ...

There are currently static libraries included in the package. Are they
needed for anything useful? Shared libs are available, too.

Splitting packages means a DD upload is required and the package will
make a trip through the NEW queue, which might take some time. And we
should probably target experimental first.


Andreas