Bug#825833: libkms
Well, the fact that it's enabled by default upstream, and that at least one very recent piece of software requires it could weight a bit :) - Mail original - > De: "Julien Cristau"> À: ydir...@free.fr, 825...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: 825833-submit...@bugs.debian.org > Envoyé: Vendredi 15 Juillet 2016 22:33:41 > Objet: Re: Bug#825833: libkms > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 18:46:32 +0200, ydir...@free.fr wrote: > > > In fact, it looks like libkms was built in the past, but is > > explicitely > > disabled now. There is probably a reason for this, but there is no > > more > > information than that in the changelog, and no README.Debian. > > > > Could we please have more insight about why this decision was made > > ? > > > libkms wasn't used/useful then, I'd need some convincing to re-enable > it. > > Cheers, > Julien >
Bug#825833: libkms
- Mail original - > De: "Sven Joachim"> À: ydir...@free.fr > Cc: 825...@bugs.debian.org, 825833-submit...@bugs.debian.org > Envoyé: Mercredi 6 Juillet 2016 19:14:41 > Objet: Re: Bug#825833: libkms > > On 2016-07-06 18:46 +0200, ydir...@free.fr wrote: > > > In fact, it looks like libkms was built in the past, but is > > explicitely > > disabled now. There is probably a reason for this, but there is no > > more > > information than that in the changelog, and no README.Debian. > > > > Could we please have more insight about why this decision was made > > ? > > It seems libkms was considered deprecated in bug #684593[1], but at > least Fedora, Mageia and Archlinux continue to ship it. Well, I'd think we could wait for upstream to disable it by default before stopping to ship it. >From my drm-beginner point of view at least, libkms seems a much more friendly option than ioctl'ing for buffer management :)
Bug#825833: libkms
In fact, it looks like libkms was built in the past, but is explicitely disabled now. There is probably a reason for this, but there is no more information than that in the changelog, and no README.Debian. Could we please have more insight about why this decision was made ? best regards, -- Yann
Bug#648443: recommend libx11-doc
> libx11-dev is not installed by > default. As far as I'm concerned this is a non-bug. Policy says: `Recommends' This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency. The `Recommends' field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations. Today it is quite common (and I would argue that it is the most common case) to install -dev packages just to be able to compile some software. Thus it is not unusual at all not to need -doc packages. And in fact the vast majority of Debian packages only has a Suggests: relationship between -dev and -doc packages, including several xorg packages (xcb, xaw...) In the context where Debian gets installed more and more on space-constrained/ embedded platforms, installing it by default is even less relevant.