Re: debian-desktop, and relevant thoughts.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:06:45PM -0400, James Strandboge wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 13:32, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 03:26:30AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > > <quote who="Ghe Rivero">
> > >
> > > > I'm one of the fanatics that had been working on the Ximian Desktop port
> > > > to Woody (Actually the only one packaging an preparing the patches). By
> > > > the end of this week I hope to have finish with the last release and put
> > > > all the sources available (at least most of then).
> > > >
> > > > Apart of this, i like XD2, and most of the improvements that they have
> > > > done, but not all. It could be great if we could integrate some patches
> > > > into the Debian desktop. I don't mind if gnome2.2 or Gnome2.4 goes into
> > > > next stable. I'm actually working with the next XDunstable, based on
> > > > Gnome2.4, so i can help anybody to have a real good desktop for Debian..
> > >
> > > Ghe, I'm still not clear why you're doing this, particularly when you're
> > > doing it independently of the larger woody backport project that is already
> > > running. Just about all of the Ximian stuff is *already present* in Debian's
> > > GNOME, minus a few fairly arguable patches here and there... I really don't
> > > grok why you have a whole separate effort for so little benefit beyond the
> > > current Debian unstable GNOME (including the existing woody backport)...
> >
> > BTW, i am searching for woody backported 4.2.1 or 4.3.0 powerpc XFree86
> > packages, maybe you have an idea were to find such, and where is this
> > 'larger existing woody backport' located ?
>
> Jeff is referring to mine. See:
>
> http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=992
>
> It contains xfree86 4.2.1 (with the patches to make totem work), and
> methods for getting the backport to work correctly with xfree86 4.3.0
> (ie recompile pango with the new freetype).
>
> Unfortunately, it is only for i386. All the sources are there, ready to
Yep, that is what i feared. That is really the problem with having
backports outside of the debian infrastructure, you only ever get x86.
> be built, and all but one or two packages are from sid sources-- so they
> should build ok (but I don't know of the specific compiler issues with
> ppc and gcc-2.95.4/gcc-3.0). I'll accept patches for ppc builds (or
> other arches for that matter).
I tried backporting 4.3.0, but it needed fontconfig, which needed
freetype, which needed xlibs (>>4.2.1), and at this moment i stopped,
not having enough time that day.
Anyway, Michel's dri-trunk server works fine, and is build on powerpc.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
>
> Jamie
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