updating nvidia-settings to 346.47?

[Andreas Beckmann]

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On 2015-03-07 12:11, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Hi Andreas
> 
> Ubuntu haven't yet split the libxnvctrl packages from nvidia-settings
> (LP: #1327753) [1].
> 
> I had a go add merging the Debian changes into the Ubuntu package.
> It worked, but I think it will be difficult to maintain like that.
> 
> I think it would be better to update the package in Debian (upstream
> have released 346.47) and then merge in the patches from the current
> Ubuntu version to make a new Ubuntu package.  I haven't looked at the
> patches closely, but some may be useful in Debian.

Sounds like a plan :-)
We will probably need to find a solution to not use the
nvidia-alternative dependency and indirection though ...

> What do you think?  Can I start working on the packaging for 346?
> The only thing that looks a bit tricky is this:
>     - Updated nvidia-settings to take advantage of GTK+ 3, when
>       available. This is implemented by building the nvidia-settings
>       user interface into separate shared libraries (libnvidia-
>       gtk2.so, libnvidia-gtk3.so), and loading the correct one at
>       run-time.

I just started doing some work on 346.*. nvidia-settings builds (gtk2
only), but I haven't tested it at all. Please go ahead and add gtk3
support. We should probably split off that library to two separate
packages ...

in SVN: branches/346
maybe start a separate branch if you want to work on Ubuntu integration

I'll probably not do anything further with 346.* before easter.


Andreas

> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-settings/+bug/1327753