There was recently an upload of X that included binary-all packages. This version, 8.1, apparently causes (some?) fonts to break on i386 machines. Please, please, please, don't make NMU's of binary-all or binary-i386 XFree86 packages without speaking to me, or determining that I've been absent from the Project for a long period of time, or there's some kind of gaping security crisis. If you send me diffs, I'd be happy to apply m68k-specific patches to the XFree86 .dsc and save the m68k guys some trouble. I'd been telling James Troup et al. to hold off because the Great Reorganization would make such things chaotic. But I'm ready to accept non-i386 patches from everyone now, so we can take some steps towards autobuilding. An NMU of X that impacts the i386 version, though, is not the best way to get my attention. Arch-specific NMU's have always had my blessing (implicitly -- it's been the practice for as long as there have been non-i386 ports of Debian, I guess). But please, please, please be careful not to clobber the i386 or all stuff -- that just means that if they cause problems I'll get 1000 bug reports that the X source tree on my home box isn't responsible for and I'll give myself an aneurysm looking for bugs that aren't there. -- G. Branden Robinson | Convictions are more dangerous enemies Debian GNU/Linux | of truth than lies. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Friedrich Nietzsche cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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