Re: experimental Xorg 6.9 packages available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/xorg-x11-6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:57:25AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:48:39PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:45:12AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:25:35PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > > > Seems to work fine after a normal boot. But when restarting it with a external
> > > > screen attached it crashes.
> > > > 
> > > > I tried to get a backtrace with gdb but it indicates that it can't find
> > > > debugging symbols in the debug libs:
> > > 
> > > I don't know about the external screen, but the missing debug symbols is a
> > > known problem that's already fixed in svn, and will be fixed on i386 with
> > > today's upload.
> > 
> > Ah, i was wondering, i will do a new powerpc build, and upload that to
> > experimental.
> 
> Awesome.

Will launch it this evening and upload tomorrow.

> > David, i also saw new libxrender and such, are those needed for the new
> > builds, and if so, will the build-dep force me to use them ? 
> 
> No, it's not required but you probably want to have it. The only change is
> that I fixed a bug preventing the installation of x11-common, but you can
> still build the rest of Xorg with the old version. Because of this, I
> didn't force a build dep on the new version.

Ok.

BTW, what is the status of the mesa package ? Frank asked me to go ahead with
the NMU i proposed to do, to fix the FTBFS problem, but i heard someone is
working on mesa 6.4 packages.

Friendly,

Sven Luther