Re: Xfree 3.3.3.1
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:55:09AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:53:53AM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > and he was very much annoyed that he was getting bugreports for an X
> > > version that he didn't make.
> >
> > sure, but there is my name and email in the changelog file, this should
> > appear in the maintainer field, isn't it ?
>
> Nope. Doesn't work that way, the one in the control file will.
>
> > actually i checked, my packages are in potato, branden's one in slink,
> > there should be no problem, that's what unstable is for, and we should
> > not use experimental for this kind of things, at least that's what
> > written in the developper doc, or even the policy, don't remember well.
>
> Um. Branden also has packages in potato.
???? no X packages at least, no x source that i could find ????
bash-2.02$ lftp ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source/x11
cd ok, cwd=/debian/dists/potato/main/source/x11
lftp> ls xfree*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 62 Jan 8 1999
xfree86_3.3.2.3a-8.1.diff.gz ->
../../../../slink/main/source/x11/xfree86_3.3.2.3a-8.1.diff.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 58 Jan 8 1999 xfree86_3.3.2.3a-8.1.dsc
-> ../../../../slink/main/source/x11/xfree86_3.3.2.3a-8.1.dsc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 62 Jan 8 1999
xfree86_3.3.2.3a.orig.tar.gz ->
../../../../slink/main/source/x11/xfree86_3.3.2.3a.orig.tar.gz
and i doubt he has powerpc packages, so my upload should cause him no problem,
also he didn't respond to me when i wrote to him ...
>
> > so i thought, ...
> >
> > but we need 3.3.3.1 for powerpc, and it is against the DFSG to make a
> > source less upload of such stuff.
> >
> > also i don't think using the X packages of the japanese debian folk is
> > not the solution, we need true 3.3.3 and up packages in main debian, if
> > branden has no time for that, ok, he says it, and people like me will
> > jump in, and make the packaging, under his direction would be best. X
> > is to huge a package to handle alone. ANd this will not help him in his
> > current flamewar about the X reorg.
>
> If you hadn't noticed, I've had 3.3.3 packages in my home directory for
> months. I am waiting to pester Branden about them until slink X is
why you don't say it then, there have been people asking for a newer X since
ages, and it would have saved me lot of time doing this stuff. and the current
X packages, as well as the other packages that we could download from
somewhere are incompatible with the current state of base. This is a grave
problem, i think ...
> fixed, because every one of the changes he needs to make to it will
> also need to be made to 3.3.3.1. It only introduces confusion to have
> both versions packaged.
sure, ...
you upload a doted debian version to potato, let's say -0.1, like my packages,
so no clash with branden's stuff, and then when he feels like he has time for
it, he just check your stuff, and uploads a full debian version (-1 in this
case) and your packages will get removed automatically.
At least that should be the way to go, and is it not like that that
xfree-3.3.2.3a-8.1 was downloaded, with fixes for m68k ?
If branden would have had a xfree package in potato, then i guess my packages
would have gone to experimental instead ...
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
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