Author: branden
Date: 2004-03-17 04:15:34 -0500 (Wed, 17 Mar 2004)
New Revision: 1159
Modified:
NEWS.xhtml
Log:
Add item announcing change in XFree86 repository policy (trunk vs.
branches/4.3.0/sid).
Modified: NEWS.xhtml
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--- NEWS.xhtml 2004-03-17 09:05:23 UTC (rev 1158)
+++ NEWS.xhtml 2004-03-17 09:15:34 UTC (rev 1159)
@@ -76,6 +76,16 @@
<h2 id="news">News and announcements</h2>
+ <p>[17 March] <strong>The XFree86 Subversion repository policy has been modified.</strong> Due in part to problems
+ caused by some patches applied to the trunk, and in part to the fact that Debian sarge is entering a freeze, it was
+ agreed on the <code>debian-x</code> mailing list that releases no longer be made from the trunk. Instead, the trunk
+ is where development happens (except, as before, for highly-disruptive or long-term changes that require a branch of
+ their own), and a change is meregd onto a release branch only once it is known to work. The <a
+ href="http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/README.txt";>README</a> document has been updated accordingly,
+ <code>branches/4.3.0/sid</code> has been re-created, and <a
+ href="http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/";>nightly snapshots</a> of it will be made again.
+ <address>branden</address></p>
+
<p>[17 March] <strong>XFree86 4.3.0-6 has been accepted into Debian unstable.</strong>
<address>branden</address></p>