[OE-core] [PATCH] xserver-xorg: restore packaging for the DRI/DRI2/DBE extensions

[Burton, Ross]

On 28 November 2012 15:51, Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>> Even though the current xserver in oe-core (1.13) doesn't ship these as
>> standalone extensions, older X servers required by binary drives
>> (e.g. meta-intel's 1.9) still install them separately.  As the packages didn't
>> exist in xserver-xorg.inc the extensions were not packaged, and X didn't work.
>>
>> Revolve this by restoring the package definitions, and moving the upgrade path
>> dependencies to xserver-xorg_1.13.bb.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
>
> Wouldn't be better for this packaging be done in meta-intel in this case?
>
> My concern here is to leave unused meta-data; I am not a big fan of it at first.

That's a valid concern, and I almost did that.  The fact that binary
drivers locked to specific version of X are so common swayed me into
being nice to them, so they don't need to replicate all of the
packaging themselves.

Ross