Bug#715398: please add a bbswitch-source package

[David Kalnischkies]

Source: bbswitch
Version: 0.7-1
Severity: wishlist

Hello bbswitch/NVIDIA Maintainers,


Currently src:bbswitch builds only a bbswitch-dkms package for usage with
dkms tools. It would be nice if you could add a bbswitch-source package
for module-assistant so that users can build proper debian packages for
the bbswitch module for the kernel they use.

(Bonus points if you use this then to build packages for the debian kernels
 so that at least for those the buildds can do the dirty compile work just
 like its done for the nvidia module.)

Attached is (so to say) a proof of concept patch I am using currently,
so you might want to change quiet a bit (and hence I am not tagging it):

* Architecture: linux-any ; same as the -dkms package. I guess all would be
  better to not waste buildd time, but you probably did it for a reason
* both Descriptions are a straight copy&paste from the -dkms package again,
  I guess they should all be rewritten to indicate what they actually contain
* I am building a bz2 tarball. You might want to use xz instead now that
  m-a is supporting it (you have to add a Breaks for it though)
* m-a builds nvidia-kernel-<kernelversion>, but I have set it for bbswitch to
  bbswitch-modules-<kernelversion> as it seems more consistent with others;
  or bbswitch-<kernelversion> (the naming nvidia-kernel actually uses) …

src:bumblebee depends need to be modified slightly to make this useful of
course and I will bug you about that at some point I guess, but one tiny
step at a time. :)


Thanks for packaging all this stuff to make my hardware work and
Best regards

David Kalnischkies
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