What license does the package have. Sometime, the Debian packaging people drop packages which don't have a "proper" FOSS license.
At Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:44:12 +0200 Tomasz Wolak <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 9/26/26 10:49 PM, Frank McCormck wrote: > > > > On 2026-09-26 16:22, Tomasz Wolak wrote: > >> Hello everyone, > >> > >> Do you know if there is any particular reason why mesa-amber drivers > >> (for Xorg) are not present in Debian distributions? (not only in > >> stable, last time I checked no version, not even experimental, has > >> packages with mesa-amber, unless named exotically...) > >> > >> These drivers are available, for instance, in Arch: > >> https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/mesa-amber/ > >> > >> > > > > ÃÂ But in Arch Pacman wants to remove the basic Mesa package to install > > Mesa-amber as they > > > > are in conflict. > > > > Well, Arch was just an example, I do not know how they package it, I > just found mesa-amber there... > > Regarding Debian, as I wrote, I have compiled source packages for Ubuntu > on Debian 13 and installed them without any issues/conflicts. There are > lintian warnings and even some errors while building packages (about > packaging for a different distro, what would need cleaning up for > Debian), but it does not seem much of a problem to me, and it is nothing > that prevents using it. It is only matter of environment (specifying > proper libraries/drivers). > > So again - is there a reason not to put it in Debian? (besides maybe > that no one has done that...) > > Cheers. > > PS. At the moment I have installed: > libegl-mesa0:amd64 > libegl-mesa0:i386 > libegl1-mesa-dev:amd64 > libgl1-mesa-dev:amd64 > libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 > libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 > libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 > libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 > libglapi-mesa:i386 > libglu1-mesa:amd64 > libglu1-mesa-dev:amd64 > libglx-mesa0:amd64 > libglx-mesa0:i386 > libosmesa6:amd64 > libosmesa6:i386 > mesa-libgallium:amd64 > mesa-libgallium:i386 > mesa-utils > mesa-utils-bin:amd64 > mesa-va-drivers:amd64 > mesa-va-drivers:i386 > mesa-vdpau-drivers:amd64 > mesa-vdpau-drivers:i386 > mesa-vulkan-drivers:amd64 > mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386 > > and I added recompiled from Ubuntu: > libegl-amber0:amd64 > libgl1-amber-dri:amd64 > libglapi-amber:amd64 > libglx-amber0:amd64 > > with no conflicts. > > I have found some alternatives for Debian: > https://github.com/Smu1zel/mesa-amber-debian > https://github.com/Smu1zel/mesa-copal > > But the first is apparently "deprecated" and the second does not build > properly (compiles, but fails on installation while building packages). > > So I wonder if there is, in general, an (official?) plan for Debian for > these drivers. > > > -- Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services
