Bug#753781: transition: xserver 1.16

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

On 06/07/14 22:22, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org> (2014-07-05):
>> Package: release.debian.org
>> Severity: normal
>> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
>> Usertags: transition
>> Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/xserver1.16.html
>>
>> We'd like to ship Jessie with xserver 1.16. It is already available in
>> experimental and built everywhere, and a few of us are already running
>> it without any major issues.
>>
>> I have done a rebuild of all the drivers (input and video) and only
>> xf86-video-glamo failed to build; all the others build fine against
>> the new xserver. There are no conflicts for the transition, so we
>> could start this right away, though since 1.16 final isn't out yet, it
>> may be wise to wait for that.
> 
> FWIW I've quickly toyed with:
>  - the server udeb fetched from experimental;
>  - the -input-evdev udeb built from the debian-experimental branch
>    against current libevdev-dev package (see attached patch, not sure
>    it's needed to apply it, your call) and experimental's server

The patch looks good, feel free to apply it.

>    development package;
>  - the -video-fbdev udeb built from the debian-unstable branch
>    against experimental's server development package.
> 
> The resulting netboot-gtk amd64 image seems to work just fine.

Great!

Thanks for checking.

Emilio