Patch for bumblebee package

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2013-03-18 08:06, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First off, sorry for the delayed response...
> 
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Ralf Jung <post at ralfj.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> attached is a patch for the bumblebee package to properly handle the
>> configuration files stored in /etc/bumblebee. For some reason, the
>> package used to not ship these files, but instead copy them in postinst,
>> which means users would not be prompted about changes in the default
>> configuration, nor obtain an updated configuration if they did not
>> change the file.
> 
> I noticed this earlier too, but I was unsure whether there was a
> specific reason upstream decided not to use conffiles for some of the
> configuration files in /etc/bumblebee. That's something I plan on
> asking the upstream PPA maintainers, but for now I'm somewhat hesitant
> to change it...

The current behavior just looks stupid. The files should either be
shipped as conffiles or if they are automatically modified by bumblebee
somehow, ucf should be used to manage them.

Andreas

PS: Getting rid of the modprobe blacklist will require bumblebee to be
purged. Take a look at glx-alternatives in experimental how I solved
this for nvidia and fglrx.