Bug#715398: please add a bbswitch-source package

Andreas Beckmann anbe at debian.org
Thu Jul 11 10:54:14 UTC 2013


On 2013-07-11 12:43, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> Ack, thanks for the patch! To be honest I have no experience with
> module-assistant at all, so I've pretty much just taken your patch
> as-is (committed to git now, will make an upload shortly).

> IIRC Aron's rationale for changing it to linux-any instead of all (I
> prefer the latter as well) is that bbswitch is only supported on
> linux. I kind of find the point moot, since I doubt that many of the
> dkms packages in debian today work on kfreebsd, and that if we wanted
> to make bbswitch installable on archs where it would actually be used,
> "Architecture: i386 amd64" would be a better choice (I don't think
> nvidia optimus is supported on non-Intel archs).

maybe armhf, too, at least the proprietary driver gained another
supported architecture with the latest release (in experimental).

> bbswitch is small enough that xz wouldn't make any difference, and
> that also makes it harder to backport.

backporting m-a is planned :-)


Andreas



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