On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 11:00:19PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: > Now, there are some definite goals for potato, which I'm familiar > with: [...] > - X 3.3.5 Just so everyone knows, I am working on this. A few points of information: 1) The #1 reason this is taking so long is because I am finally going through all our patches and breaking them up by logical function in preparation for submission upstream. One patch file alone separated into roughly FORTY different patches of distinct function that we can send upstream. 2) There will be a 3.3.6, to be released sometime in the fourth quarter of this year. We are probably doomed to lag at least one release behind XFree86. Our release cycle continues at its plodding slow pace, but XFree86 is apparently speeding theirs up. 3) I still don't know what I'm supposed to do about updated versions of X for slink. I'd like the stable-updates person/people to speak with me about the plausibility of a 3.3.4-0slink3 release (0slink2 is already available and contains a security fix, but 0slink3 will contain some non-security fixes that are important for functionality on non-i386 arches.) 4) I do not think it is reasonable to update XFree86 3.3.2.3 for slink in any way, shape or form, stable-updates policy be damned. Tons of bugs have been fixed since slink released, and it would be an unspeakable bitch to backport them. There is also the not inconsiderable issue of lots of hardware that 3.3.4 supports that 3.3.2.3 doesn't. 5) If we're going to update slink, I'd like folks to consider doing it with 3.3.5. It is a very small incremental release over 3.3.4 (if you don't believe me, I have a diff) that fixed some admitted oversights in the 3.3.4 release. BTW, the slinkified 3.3.4 packages are on the web. Read about them at <http://www.debian.org/~branden/>. Joey Hess deserves the credit for them. I just hacked them up with security fixes. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | Communism is just one step on the long Debian GNU/Linux | road from capitalism to capitalism. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Russian saying cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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