24.01.2016, 20:34, Luca Boccassi kirjoitti: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Luca Boccassi <luca.bocca...@gmail.com> > > * Package name : libglvnd > Version : 0~20160122 > Upstream Author : NVIDIA Corporation > * URL : https://github.com/NVIDIA/libglvnd > * License : MIT > Programming Lang: C > Description : Vendor-neutral OpenGL dispatch layer > > libglvnd is a Vendor-neutral dispatch layer for arbitrating OpenGL API > calls between multiple vendors on a per-screen basis. > Currently, only the GLX window-system API and OpenGL are supported, but > in the future this library may support EGL and OpenGL ES as well. > > > I am one of the pkg-nvidia maintainers, and we would like to use this > ITP to start a discussion about packaging libglvnd with the maintainers > of Mesa, X and fglrx. > > As you might have read news about, NVIDIA has been working on an open > source (MIT-like license) vendor-neutral dispatch layer for OpenGL. They > have now declared it stable, and their proprietary graphics driver > started using it in version 361 [1]. > > It has been reported that AMD is interested in supporting this library > too [2]. > > Finally, following a discussion on the upstream Mesa mailing list [3], > it has been reported that work is in progress in Mesa too to support > this library [4]. > > Our proposal would be to wait to upload this package until a version of > Mesa that can make use of it is released. Then, as a a possible example, > we could upload both to Debian experimental, and at the same time switch > the proprietary Nvidia drivers to use it, and see how it works. When > fglrx gets there too, we should then be able to stop using > glx-alternatives-* packages. > > My proposal for the packaging itself can be found on pkg-nvidia's git > [5]. Given upstream doesn't seem to do release tagging, I'm using the > 0~<LAST-COMMIT-DATE> format. I split each .so in an individual binary > and -dbg package, called *-glvnd[-dbg], plus a common libglvnd-dev. > Figuring out precisely the licensing was the fun part, as the code is a > mixture of Expat, MIT-like, BSD 1-clause and 3-clause, GPL3 and > GNU-permissive :-) > > Comments? Opinions? ACKs/NACKs?
packaging available at git://git.debian.org/pkg-xorg/lib/libglvnd.git but since it hasn't been of any use there was no ITP filed, so thanks for that :) it's not final of course, tests fail and there are probably other issues too.. -- t