Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jean-Yves Avenard" <jyaven...@gmail.com>
* Package name : libvdpau Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Aaron Plattner <aplatt...@nvidia.com> * URL : http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/libvdpau * License : Nvidia free Programming Lang: C Description : Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix. This library provides free wrapper of the Video Decode and presentation API. A few weeks ago, nvidia announced that their vdpau wrapper library was going to be split/removed from the nvidia driver distribution ( first announced in : http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=138880) Currently, all vdpau libraries are packaged with nvidia driver (in particular nvidia-xxx-libvdpau) Stephen Warren from nvidia submitted various bugs describing what structure should be adopted, like here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180/+bug/432172 The main downside with the current nvidia / vdpau drivers as they are packaged now, is that any packages built using VDPAU (mythtv, mplayer), has a dependency on a specific nvidia drivers version. As you can't switch graphic drivers easily... I've built nvidia drivers without libvdpau, as per nvidia instructions moving libvdpau to its own separate package. I was wondering what is the best way to submit it to debian/ubuntu ? Two modifications are required. libvdpau package (that includes libvdpau0 and libvdpau-dev) and the nvidia drivers to explicitely exclude libvdpau and libvdpau_trace (or more accurately, not remove how they are included now)... Here is libvdpau package source code: http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos/release/libvdpau_0.2-0ubuntu6.tar.gz nvidia drivers for use with new libvdpau: 180.60 http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos/release/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180_180.60-0ubuntu9.tar.gz 185.18.36 http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos/release/nvidia-graphics-drivers-185_185.18.36-0ubuntu2.tar.gz 190.36 http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos/release/nvidia-graphics-drivers-190_190.36-0ubuntu6.tar.gz Then all packages with a build dependency to nvidia-xxx-libvdpau-dev should be changed to libvdpau-dev And now packages should now directly reference any nvidia-xxx-libvdpau package or link with libvdpau_nvidia.so I'm happy to modify libvdpau package in any ways you see fit and maintain it in the future... Thank you Jean-Yves -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers jaunty-updates APT policy: (500, 'jaunty-updates'), (500, 'jaunty-security'), (500, 'jaunty') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
