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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> 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.

Well but in this case we would be better to have 1.9 in oe-core, in this case.

I understand your point and I partially agree with it (I suffer of
same pain) but it doesn't seem right to keep this code.

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