Bug#579102: conky requires packages outside main for compilation

[Vincent Cheng]

Sorry for the delay in my reply; I've been caught up in the
back-to-school rush lately.

I'd like to propose my original solution [1] to bug #579102 when I
adopted conky, i.e. have two conky source packages (conky in main,
conky-all in contrib); src:conky would build conky-cli and
conky-std, both without Nvidia support, while src:conky-all would
build a binary conky-all package with Nvidia support, and thus be
placed in contrib. This would ensure that conky complies with Policy,
while not removing any features, and cater to both main and contrib
users.

Aron, please review and sponsor when you have time to do so:

$ dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/conky/conky_1.8.1-5.dsc
$ dget 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/c/conky-all/conky-all_1.8.1-5.dsc

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=579102#47

Kind regards,
- Vincent Cheng



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Bug#579102: conky requires packages outside main for compilation

[Vincent Bernat]

As I have proposed in the previous bug report, if we can get the
needed information from the command line for nvidia owners, I will
propose a patch for conky to use this information instead of relying
on non free bits.

However, I need that some user of the non-free driver digg a bit to
find how to extract those informations from the command line. Maybe
the support of nvidia cards could be dropped meanwhile and conky kept
in main.
-- 
Vincent Bernat ☯ http://vincent.bernat.im

10.0 times 0.1 is hardly ever 1.0.
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