Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r372 - trunk/debian
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 08:00:47PM +0200, David Martínez Moreno wrote:
> El Martes, 19 de Julio de 2005 14:20, David Nusinow escribió:
> > These xlibmesa packages are gone and I haven't decided what to do about
> > xlibs-* yet. Transitioning the whole archive off them will take an enormous
> > amount of work that's not that critical right now. Maybe for the modular
> > tree, but I don't think that should be on the TODO list for the monolithic
> > tree at all.
>
> I think so. It is very 'silly' (sorry if this sounds harsh, I do not know any
> other word in English softer than silly), in my humble opinion to have
> separate packages for *everything* and not use that separation in the
> development packages. It pushes less load on the whole system (you only use
> whatever you need): users and builders. And all these xlibs-* packages are,
> as stated, for transitioning purposes.
>
> Obviously it is going to make half of the distribution FTBFS, but unstable is
> *now* half-frozen...it is time to change, IMO. Reorganization of packages is
> hard, all of us know that, and I understand that it is not for maybe -4 or
> even -5, but it deserves a line in the TODO, because it is work to do. :-)
> Hide it won't do it.
I'm not willing to do this without a concerted effort on the part of the
XSF to help it move along faster. Yes, there are advantages to dumping
xlibs-dev, but they are minimal in comparison to things like switching to
the modular tree.
I'm not trying to hide anything, I'm trying to prioritize what our goals
are rather than throwing a ton of stuff that might be nice to have on our
TODO list. If you want a WISHLIST, I can make one and put this on there.
If you want to start grepping through the whole archive and finding all the
packages that build-dep on xlibs-dev, and then start sending patches to
every one, feel free. I'm not prepared to even think about doing that
myself until we've caught up with our own upstream. That said, if you want
to send a mail to -devel-announce asking people to start switching their
build-deps, that could potentially go a long way.
- David Nusinow
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