On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 the mental interface of Simon Huggins told: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 01:25:03AM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 the mental interface of > > Simon Huggins told: > > [...] > > > In short, Martin and I had a plan to upload the RC1 packages to > > > experimental - I made some further changes to the 4.2RC1 xfdesktop > > > code which Brian picked up in CVS for 4.2 and released in RC3 I > > > believe. I think the packages Martin and I have between us could > > > easily be updated to the lastest RC and go to experimental now. > > I didn't noticed these packages? > > I've never heard of you before in my life until Guido forwarded your > mail to me yet I'm subscribed to all the PTS lists of the packages and Same on me. > I'm the guy listed in the changelogs recently for more recent 4.0.x > uploads. Respect ;-) > I'm sorry but I'm not psychic why? > so I didn't contact you when > we'd prepared 4.1.99.1 packages. Should be my fault ;-9 > > > > I was planning on working on getting CVS HEAD to build now 4.2.0 is > > > closer so when it is released we can have them there. The issue > > > after that is to sort out the xfce4-goodies packages. > > Which is done already by os-cillation. > > I've not looked at the os-cillation (now os-works) -goodies packages but > we can't ship the base 4.2 packages from os-works as they're not just > 4.2. They are 4.2 + some xfld patches and in some cases (xfdesktop in > particular) they have 4.3 code in them that we can't guarantee will be > supported. Which is actually 4.3.6.4. > > > > Our packages (source + i386) are at http://the.earth.li/~huggie/xfce4/ > > > and http://people.debian.org/~madkiss/xfce4/ > > Since then xfce 4.2 has released and the first URL has all the 4.2 > packages - I believe Madkiss is looking at potentially uploading these > to experimental. So we have to check packages. Unfortunally there will be a big version mismatch :( > > Xfce4.2 packages for ppc are available at: > > deb http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv binary-powerpc/ > > deb-src http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv sources/ > > Are these just recompiles for PPC of the 4.2 packages above? > http://the.earth.li/~huggie/xfce4/ These packages are modified os-cillation ones. > > Sorry Benny, but I removed the xfld stuff..... ;-) > > Quite. We can't distribute this in good faith if we are staying true to > the xfce.org tarballs. Who can distribute ppc packages then? I think I'll remove my repository to sync to the maintainer sources. But anyway this can be done by an upload to _sid_ as well! > > Emanuele Rocca persuaded Andrew Lau to open up the alioth project for > xfce so your efforts might well be better used there. Hmmm. I need some further explanations here. Ciao Elimar -- Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing;-)
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