On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 06:49:19PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > 1) Release 4.2.1-7 (it was on, then it was off, now it's on again). See > http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/changelog?rev=44&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup > for why. I think I can handle this, and LaMont Jones will thank me. :) > (Even if everyone else will curse my name for it not being 4.3.0-1. :-P) Is there anything else that needs to be done in trunk/ to get it out as a 4.2.1-7? As it has to go out before 4.3.0, I don't see why it shouldn't take priority, if it needs work. > 2) The xlibs bustup. Currently I envision: > * One shared lib, -dev, and -dbg package for every shared > library except those with a different upstream (fontconfig, > xft, xrender, xcursor). > * xlibs-dev continues to live on as a dumping ground for > hated old static-only libraries. Why not a new xlibs-static package, or such, leaving xlibs-dev being no more than a metapackage? > * xlibs-pic can continue to live on as a counterpart to > xlibs-dev, except these static libraries will contain > policy-violating PIC symbols. I disagree with upstream's > solution to the static/PIC problem and I think we should go > ahead with Matthieu Herrb's solution from patch #046. debian/patches/046_piclib_support.diff, from 4.2.1? If that's what you've decided, that's fine - you know a great deal more about PIC than I (or Jack Horwarth ;) do. > The binaries are the toughest part. The prospect of libx11-6-bin, > libsm6-bin, libxt6-bin, etc., makes me vomit. At the same time people > screech bloody murder about GL dependencies in xbase-clients when all > they want is xauth. The Athena clients can easily be split off. Any > other proposals? I'm still mulling over the thought of an xauth-static > package. xauth links against 3 X libraries: libXmuu.so.1, libXext.so.6, > and libX11.so.6. If we have libx11-6-bin, libxext6-bin, and > libxmuu6-bin packages people will always guess wrong. Well, we could make a 'core' package, with only a very small amount of binaries (xauth, xhost, that sort of thing), and then put everything else in the -bin package; either that, or have libx11-6-bin/libxext6-bin/libxmuu6-bin Provides: xauth. > Hmm, I'm forgetting other things for my enumerated list at present. > Well, that's what discussion threads are for. 3) Bug porters. Thanks! :) d -- Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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