primus_0~20150328-3_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

[Vincent Cheng]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 July 2016 at 04:24, Vincent Cheng <vcheng at debian.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 20:56 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote:
>>>> On maandag 18 juli 2016 09:51:48 CEST Debian FTP Masters wrote:
>>>> > * Move xserver-xorg-video-intel dependency
>>>>
>>>> In the most recent upload of that driver, this was added:
>>>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-xorg/xserver/xorg-server.git/commit/?
>>>> id=9ed088624f4da2e694f34cc0d3a168c0a6b68a76
>>>>
>>>> I think that means that the use of xserver-xorg-video-intel is deprecated, but
>>>> I'm not sure as the situation with that driver is confusing to me.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the heads-up.
>>>
>>> Vincent, I think I remember you do some work on xxsv, do you have any
>>> insight on these changes? When I have time I'll try and test that with
>>> primus and see what happens.
>>
>> I don't follow Xorg development closely (or at all, really), but my
>> understanding is that at some point in the future,
>> xserver-xorg-video-modesetting is supposed to replace vendor-specific
>> DDX drivers, and I guess that change is being accelerated in Debian.
>> That's about all I know wrt xserver-xorg-video-intel. I don't think
>> primus actually depends on the Intel DDX (does it?), it's just that we
>> want to avoid users having PRIMUS_UPLOAD=0 set in their environment in
>> combination with them using the Intel DDX + UXA enabled.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vincent
>
> Ok, I understand.
> I tested it and with the new xorg-server version and without xxvi
> primus still works perfectly fine, so I changed the dependency as
> follows:
>
> xorg-server (>= 2:1.18.3-2) | xserver-xorg-video-intel (>= 2:2.99.917)
>
> If that seems reasonable for you I'll do a new upload tomorrow.

Looks good to me, thanks!

Regards,
Vincent