Re: XD2 for debian woody
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
2.1.3 won't hold up the backport if you have fontconfig 2.1 and libxft2
2.1, which is all xfree86 4.3 really needs IIRC.
Jamie
--
Email: jstrand1@rochester.rr.com
GPG/PGP ID: 26384A3A
Fingerprint: D9FF DF4A 2D46 A353 A289 E8F5 AA75 DCBE 2638 4A3A
Reply to: