[Mesa-maintainers] Downstream Mesa patches and quirks

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 04:23:01PM +0100, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > > - n_VDPAU-XVMC-libs-Replace-hardlinks-with-copies.patch
> > >   * Since these are packaged separately in (open)SUSE anyway, one can use
> > >   * copies as well. This makes debug packages possible again. (bnc #962609)
> > >  https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/X11:XOrg/Mesa/n_VDPAU-XVMC-libs-Replace-hardlinks-with-copies.patch?expand=1
> > >  https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962609
> > >
> > >  I'm not aware of a different fix, when splitting vdpau/xvmc to
> > >  subpackages. :-(
> > >
> > Just ship a single mesa-vdpau/etc package? The extra modularity does
> > not bring you anything.
> 
> https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1082300

I'm not convinced yet about changing this.

In order to get rid of the patch we would need to merge (again)

  libXvMC_nouveau + libXvMC_r600

and

  libvdpau_nouveau + libvdpau_r300 + libvdpau_r600 + libvdpau_radeonsi

and of course make sure, the new package supersedes the old packages. I
currently don't see the benefit of doing this. 

And we lose the possibility of declaring some of the old packages stable,
i.e. install them by default on appropriate hardware. And others less stable
or experimental or no longer well tested and install them not by default.

Thanks,
Stefan

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