Hello, After discussing it with Mark Eichin, I am taking over maintainership of XFree86. Mark has agreed to be fall-back maintainer and to be a bit of a mentor for me in this task, and even to reclaim maintainership in the event it proves too much for my feeble mind. Reason being, Mark has too much to do right now to get a build of 3.3.2 ready for hamm. As we're already technically under the wire, I'm in the process of rebuilding Alex Romosan's unofficial .debs of 3.3.2 and will upload them to frozen and unstable as soon as they are done. I've been running these .debs of Alex's for the past day or so and they seem fine. This release will have the Debian version 0, to reflect the fact that it is a Debian BETA. You may very well not want to install this version at all. It is my intention to get this thing out of the gate now. The next thing on my list is to attack the release-critical bugs, then apply the bugfixes to the last version that Mark made. Seeing as the 3.3.2 .debs are working on the systems where people have tried them (gathering from IRC), I see no reason that they should be placed in project/experimental. I do want to warn folks who mirror, however, that with any luck -1 will be out within a week. I will include a cautionary note with the upload announcement when that happens, I just wanted to offer a "heads up" now. Come hell or high water, I intend to have those release-critical bugs fixed by release time for 2.0. If they aren't, I'll understand if this is held back. But I think it would be good to have 3.3.2 in Debian 2.0. Maybe that's just a blind attempt to appease the market, though. :) After that, my goals are to move the rules file to debhelper and, at the same time (because debhelper makes this easier), attempt lintian compliance. This is a big job for a package with 41.5 megs of compressed sources, so I will also be assembing an "X Strike Force" whose purpose is to help battle the bug war and generally have clues where I don't. Manoj Srivastava has already graciously volunteered to help troubleshoot problems with xcontrib. I also want to work with the debian-sparc people about getting xserver-sun integrated into the Debian release, if not upstream. I do not presently intend to incorporate the SuSE X servers into Debian; I don't know their licensing, I don't know that they've been caught up to 3.3.2 yet, and I've heard rumors that some of them are superseded by this release of X anyway. Should the SuSE servers continue to be valuable to enough people, however, I have no objection to working with people who'd like to package them separately. If you have any concerns, please followup on this thread. I'd like to do a good job with X, though I know I have big shoes to fill. Thanks, Mark, for bringing us this far. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you wish to strive for peace of soul, Purdue University | then believe; if you wish to be a branden@purdue.edu | devotee of truth, then inquire. http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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