Here's a tiny update, and below, the descriptions. Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> (28/01/2011): > * Package name : wayland > Version : git > Upstream Author : Kristian Høgsberg and others > * URL : http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ > * License : GPL & MIT/X mostly. > Programming Lang: C > Description : new generation compositor > > > >From the homepage: > > Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as > a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be a > standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev > input devices, an X application, or a wayland client itself. The clients > can be traditional applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or > other display servers.
I kept that as an explanation of what wayland is, in all binary packages generated from src:wayland and src:wayland-demos. This bug is about the former, the ITP bug for the latter is #630809. A prerequisite for that one is now #630811. > The wayland repository includes a compositor which can run as an X > client or under Linux KMS and a few clients, but both the compositor and > clients are essentially test cases. > > I'm not yet sure what pieces we're going to ship, and in which binary > packages. But let's keep track in the BTS that the X Strike Force is > going to take care of it. src:wayland-demos ships wayland-demos. src:wayland ships libwayland0 libwayland0-dbg libwayland-dev. Here are the descriptions for the libwayland* packages: Package: libwayland0 Description: wayland compositor infrastructure - shared libraries Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland client itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers. . This is an experimental library package, neither ABI or API are fixed right now. As a consequence, generated dependencies are made as strict as possible. It should only be used by mesa and wayland-demos. Package: libwayland0-dbg Description: wayland compositor infrastructure - shared libraries (debug) Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland client itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers. . This package contains the debug version of the libraries found in libwayland0. Non-developers likely have little use for this package. Package: libwayland-dev Description: wayland compositor infrastructure - development files Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland client itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers. . This package contains the development headers for the libraries found in libwayland0. Non-developers likely have little use for this package. > (I don't like the “new generation” bit in the short description, > suggestions welcome.) Gone away. I picked the description seen in the git repositories: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/ Mraw, KiBi.
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