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[Fabian Greffrath]

Hi Julian,

please don't drop the list from CC, we are discussing a team-maintained
package.

Am Sonntag, den 09.11.2014, 03:59 -0800 schrieb Julian Cable: 
> I've just asked myself the same question - I had a go at making the
> changes and it all worked fine. If we add the new libraries to the
> existing packages, there is really only a change to the Makefile.am
> and it's all done!

I see. I would have prefered the "long" way of running "./configure
--with-drm", then "make", then rename and backup the library, "make
clean" and repeat without "--with-drm". But checking configure.in, I see
that the only difference between a build "--with-drm" and a build
without is actually the two #defines that you add, so I think your way
is even the cleaner solution.

> I've raised tickets on the upstream projects for this but I don't know
> if Menno Bakker can make time to do a new release. It could be done as
> a Debian patch and i've made the patch files (you would need to review
> and modify the metadata in these).

I am afraid that upstream is pretty dead now. The latest releases are
more than 5 years old, Menno is working on something different
professionally, I believe, and the latest changes I proposed on the
sourceforge bug tracker weren't even merged by himself anymore, but by
someone else (and this is even more than two years ago).

> In my experiments I added new binary packages, but I think this is a
> bad idea.

Why do you think so? I think this should be discussed with the team.

- Fabian