On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:09:26PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> But I would suggest that the maintainer should do a -8 version in this case
> fixing the problem, because the time needed to do a -8 upload would have been
> probably orders of magnitudes less than the time all people need to find out
> what to fix and fix it. I even would prefer to stay with -6 in testing until a
> -8 is released for other reasons.
Well, since you seem to think I haven't done a god damn thing with X
since I released -7, here's the -8 changelog so far:
xfree86 (4.1.0-8) unstable; urgency=medium
+ put pixmap stuff inside WIDTH >= 1024 section of xdm-conf.cpp
+ integrate Adam C Powell IV's latest ARM patches
* patch #000_stolen_from_HEAD_xterm: xterm patches #159 and #160
includes "modify logic in main.c (see patch #145) to avoid generating the
same identifier, for example, for /dev/tty1 and /dev/pts/1, which is used to
denote an entry in the utmp file" (Closes: #84676)
* patch #001: m68k can use -fPIC like everyone else (not -fpic)
* patch #002: use large fonts in xdm greeter for 1024-pixel-wide displays
(thanks, Brendan O'Dea)
* debian/control:
- xserver-xfree86 Conflicts: libxfont-xtt, and
- xlibs-dev Conflicts: libxfont-xtt-dev (Closes: #81993)
* debian/local/Xsession.d//99xfree86-common_start: don't quote $REALSTARTUP
(Closes: #113878)
* debian/local/Xsession.options: remove "allow-user-modmap" from default
version of file since this option is no longer supported
* debian/rules: set LC_ALL to C when generating MANIFEST files so that
localization of the build environment doesn't generate false negatives in
the MANIFEST check (thanks, Martin Albert) (Closes: #114729)
* debian/xserver-common.templates.es: added Spanish translation (thanks,
Carlos Valdivia Yagüe) (Closes: #114664)
> Is there any kind of Debian testing policy concering issues like this? Are
> packages which are not intended to release like this appropriate for testing?
Suck it up, or lobby the release manager to apply extra-strict criteria to
XFree86.
If you can't stand software still in development, go back to stable. In the
meantime, stop being an armchair package maintainer. Not one person ever
upgraded the severity of these bugs (and don't bother to now, it would be
stupid since they're already in testing, and would just stall the next release
-- with the FIX -- forever).
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