PLEASE REPLY TO THE LISTS, AND NOT MY MAILBOX. DO NOT FILE BUG REPORTS ABOUT THIS, EITHER; THERE IS ALREADY A BUG FILED ABOUT A NEW UPSTREAM VERSION OF X. Okay, with that out of the way... There will be no 4.0.0 .debs. 4.0.1 is expected in mid-June, and I plan to package that. Why? 1) Real-world (i.e., work) considerations have kept me very busy with non-X related work for the past few months. I have very strong reasons to expect that situation to change for the better soon -- but I'm not at liberty to discuss why at the moment. 2) XFree86 4.0.0 has a lot of problems. People who are actually already using it on a daily basis have reported a lot of crashes. Furthermore, it is being patched upstream at a very aggressive pace. Over two hundred distinct patches have been applied to the upstream CVS tree to date. 3) As I said, XFree86 4.0.1 is expected in mid-June. This is approximately three weeks from now. 4.0.0 debs have already been delayed so long it seems to make sense at this point just to give up on official versions and re-target for 4.0.1 instead. 4) XFree86 4.0 will not be in potato. We are in freeze right now, and it is imperative that I place priority on the version of XFree86 that is going into potato. I have been addressing release-critical bugs and denial-of-service attacks in 3.3.6 and will be releasing 3.3.6-7 in time for the second test cycle. Test i386 .debs for 3.3.6-7 are available at: deb http://samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ potato/$(ARCH)/ 5) XFree86 4.0 did not support SPARC hardware at all. SPARC is an important supported architecture for Debian. SPARC support has been added upstream and will be in 4.0.1. -- G. Branden Robinson | Human beings rarely imagine a god that Debian GNU/Linux | behaves any better than a spoiled child. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Robert Heinlein roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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