Request for newer mesa,llvm packages in stretch backports

[Jérémy Viès]

Hi all,

My (first) upload to mentors is online (@
https://mentors.debian.net/package/llvm-toolchain-5.0).
Can someone sponsor me ?

If it is OK, I can start the packaging of other sources and upload them.

Regards,
Jérémy

2018-02-01 10:50 GMT+01:00 Andreas Boll <andreas.boll.dev at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 08:37:17PM +0100, Jérémy Viès wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to give a help.
> > I backport for my own the mesa stack and its dependencies.
>
> Thanks for offering help!
>
> >
> > Until mesa 17.3.2, I had no issue with the following packages, just
> > recompiling the sources from sid:
> > llvm-toolchain-5.0
> > libclc
> > libdrm
> > wayland-protocols
> > libglvnd
> > mesa
> >
> > But since a few days, at least llvm-toolchain-5.0 needs an updated quilt
> > (0.63-8.2) that does not build out of the box on stretch.
> > If someone knows what is the quilt update about, I can try to patch
> debian
> > build of llvm-toolchain to only depend on quilt from stretch.
>
> Yeah, I've bumped the quilt dependency in mesa-17.3.3-1. But it looks like
> Gianfranco has already uploaded that quilt version to backports [1]. Thanks
> Gianfranco!
>
> >
> > I dit not tried to backport vulkan as I do not use it for now, but it
> > backported straight forward at jessie time.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jérémy
> >
>
> So the next step would be to find a DD for sponsoring the llvm upload.
> The best way for this is to prepare and upload the backport of
> llvm-toolchain-5.0 to mentors [2].
>
> For the other packages we want to have the backports to be prepared in
> the VCS. See also the branches for jessie-backports. I'll look into this
> task.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
>
> [1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/backports-new.html
> [2] https://mentors.debian.net/
>
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