Re: mesa-updates: call for patches

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hi John,

John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com> writes:

> Hi Guix-ers,
>
> Time for another round of Mesa and friends updates! I've been waiting
> for another Mesa release but seems the 23.2 series has stalled out and
> now is a good time before 23.3 or 24. I've been using 23.2.1 for some
> packages locally without issue. I would like to get this branch built
> and then promptly merged, assuming no showstoppers. Actually, probably
> just cherry-pick since it is should just be a few commits and I find
> that cleaner, personally (but happy for advice here).

If you're going to put a branch for it and build it whole, I'd simply
merge it whole after it's done building and hasn't regressed on package
failures or other things.

> There's already a CI build job and I'll submit the request to merge
> for hopefully QA to compare. I will also do some ungrafting. Maxim,
> I'm CC'ing you since you mentioned the core-updates cycle about to
> happen, so if this branch takes some time maybe we'll be better off
> just combining. Let me know. Otherwise I hope to have the branch
> building in a few days and then let it churn.

I'd say go for a branch!

> Here is a list of what has been on my radar and I'll be looking to
> apply on the mesa-updates branch. If there's something I missed and
> you think makes sense here (e.g. lower level graphical/X related
> libraries) please let me know. And yes, I need to make a Mesa team. It
> is on my list!
>
> 1. ungraft libx11 and libxpm
>
> 2. update mesa (23.2.1)
>
> 3. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65375> (libepoxy fix for GTK, see <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64981>)
>
> 4. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65155> (mesa vulkan search-paths)
>
> 5. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65153> (sdl2 vulkan-loader; and update sdl2?)
>
> 6. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64637> (libdrm update; to even newer version now)
>
> 7. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/66727> (libxkbcommon update)
>
> 8. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64639> (pixman update)
>
> 9. submit patch for mesa team
>
> Thanks everyone! And when you see the updates pushed on mesa-updates
> and builds become available, please do test and let me know. Or if
> you'd like to join this team of one, happy to have you on board.

Sounds like a fine plan!  Thank you for tackling this!

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim