Re: XD2 for debian woody
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?¿
> > I know exactly what you mean when you say it's not that easy. I think we
> > should work together, because we are doing similar things. How could we
> > do that? Should we create a mailing-list or what? I can provide that if
> > needed (on http://glasnost.beeznest.org or on http://www.bxlug.be).
> > James, what do you think, do you jump too?
>
> I am up for integrating tested patches. One such patch that is already
> integrated is the file dialog patch with nice buttons for Home, Desktop
> and Documents.
We will try to be as Debian policy compliant and clean as possible to integrate our job
with the officials debian packages.
> Jamie
Ghe Rivero
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