Re: XD2 for debian woody
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 12:15:27PM -0400, James Strandboge wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 13:41, Ghe Rivero wrote:
> > El vie, 01-08-2003 a las 15:04, James Strandboge escribió:
> > > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 04:45, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> > > > > We (Just me for the moment) are taking the port of Gnome2.2 for Woody
> > > > > like the base, and just applying the patches and recompiling the
> > > > > packages (actually it is not so easy). We want to change the Woody base
> > > > > as little as possible, so we are downgrouding some dependencies (as
> > > > > debhelper, and things like that). Apart of this, we are using the ports
> > > > > of Branden XFree4.2 packages for Woody for the moment (deb
> > > > > http://people.debian.org/~frankie/debian woody/x421/) but we are waiting
> > > > > to a realase of 4.3.
> > >
> > > The backport should now work with xfree86 4.3, as long as fontconfig,
> > > freetype, and xft2 are upgraded as well.
> >
> > But.. is there any packages of xfree4.3 really usable at this moment
> > for debian?¿
>
> Not that I am aware of. However, what I was saying is that freetype
The 4.3.0-0prev1 or something such packages just got uploaded to
experimental this morning. They have to pass the ftp-masters first, but
should be pretty ok. I have been using Daniel's -0ds4 packages since
ages, and without majot problems.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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