Mesa 6.4 and libdrm 1.0.5 packages

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 06:47 +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: 
> [Resend as my original message is still in the moderation queue, which
>  doesn't seem to get looked at.]

I'd volunteer to co-moderate the list, FWIW.


While the names are on the table...

>   * mesag3 -> libgl1-mesa-swrast; ditto -dev

I don't think libgl1-mesa-swrast is very accurate; AFAIK it actually
uses X11 (but not GLX), so something like libgl1-mesa-x11 maybe?

>   * libgl1-mesa-dri -> libgl1-mesa; ditto -dev,
>     + libgl1-mesa-dri now contains only actual DRI modules,

The drivers aren't directly tied to the libgl1 virtual package (the long
term plan is to use them in the X server as well to provide accelerated
indirect rendering), something like mesa-(dri-)drivers might be better.

> libgl1-mesa was chosen because, when xlibmesa-gl disappears, it will be 
> the primary GL library for >99% of Debian's userbase.  I renamed its 
> description to GLX, because it seemed a bit more fitting.

This line of reason makes sense to me, but then why not call it
something like libgl1-mesa-glx?


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