[pkg-nvidia-devel] r972 - in /packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/trunk/debian: changelog control

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:

>>> - Please see the nvidia-kernel-source or nvidia-kernel-dkms packages for
>>> - building the kernel module required by this package.  This will provide
>>> - nvidia-kernel-${nvidia:Version}.
>>> + Please see the nvidia-kernel-dkms or
>>> + nvidia-kernel-source packages
>>> + for building the kernel module required by this package.
>>> + This will provide nvidia-kernel-${nvidia:Version}.

>> Looks like the line wrapping got messed up here and in a few other places
>> in this patch.

> No, this was intentional to get some free space where '-legacy-123xx'
> suffixes can be inserted without extending the lines over 80 characters.
> This could be done via the nvidia:Legacy substvars I already introduced,
> but the patch that adds them to debian/control needs to be updated for
> other changes that happen(ed) to debian/control before I can send a new
> version.

Hm.  The problem is that the descriptions are going to display like that
to users, and that looks pretty ugly.  I don't see how we can share
debian/control between the regular and legacy packages anyway (the long
description will need to change to say that this is a legacy package and
mention which chip sets it supports), so I'm not sure that this really
buys us very much.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>