Re: XFree86 3.3.5 package status (was: Debian's problems)
> 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.
Will this help to downsize the release time?
> 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.
A new xfree and a new kernel (2.4) also? Is 3.3.6 for potato -- the glibc-2.1
one ?
> 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.
When will you upload 3.3.5?
Regards,
Hartmut
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