| Summary: | Maintainership request: x11-drivers/ati-drivers | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | dosfreak622 |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Proxy Maintainers <proxy-maint> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | 582406 | ||
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Description
dosfreak622
2017-02-16 10:31:11 UTC
Too many bugs to add everything as blockers. I can reluctantly accept this so long as the two conditions dosfreak622 outlined in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582406#c12 are abided by: (1) x11-drivers/ati-drivers remains masked (2) x11-drivers/ati-drivers becomes an OpenCL-only package* * because ati-drivers cannot work with the latest stable x11-base/xorg-server, and it is a burden to backport security fixes to unmaintained versions kept around solely for dead proprietary drivers. I asked the proxy maintainers about the status of this bug. They typically don't like to make someone the maintainer without having some contributions. I suggest you start by submitting pull requests on github for making ati-drivers OpenCL-only and for supporting more recent kernels (bug 583574). Looks like there might be a bug for OpenCL-only: bug 562508. Yes, I plan to tackle the OpenGL-only compile flag. However, I was planning to make sure compatibility exists with newer kernels as my very first step, i.e., Bug #583574. I will be travelling for a couple of days, so I expect I won't actually be able to submit any pull requests until I can test them on my machine (circa 1st March). Never heard back, and it's been two weeks since March 1st. Package removed. |
