On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 05:00:16PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > Since Stephen M Moraco <stephen_moraco@agilent.com> is currently the rman > maintainer (he has uploaded rman_3.0.9-1 to incoming a few weeks ago) and my > intended TkMan deb depends on rman I just want to make sure that everyone here > is aware to the rman package status. XFree86 4.0.1 is putting me in the interesting position of having to either hijack packages from people (libxpm*), or work out some sort of détente with them (Mesa, rman, and others). Stephen, can you tell me if rman upstream development has officially been transferred to XFree86? I know this is the case with the Xpm libraries, since Xpm was essentially a "finished" spec and implementation a couple of years back. I know the X guys have been hacking on rman quite a bit, so this indicated the possibility to me that they have taken over its upstream maintenance. Just a note to bystanders reading this. Don't panic, I'm not going to put 4.0.1 in unstable with undeclared conflicts. My initial, experimental packages may do so, however. Once the Phase 1 .debs are up I'll watch the reports roll in about exactly what packages 4.0.1 steps on. Here's what I know so far: PACKAGE MAINTAINER NOTES libxpm* Josip Rodin I talked to Josip; these will be swallowed into my XFree86 packages libs/headers to xlib6g and xlib6g-dev xlib6g will provide libxpm4 binaries to xbase-clients pixmap Paul Slootman haven't talked to him; this package will be redundant now that xbase-clients "bitmap" program has equivalent functionality mesa James Treacy I talked to him; because of GGI and stuff, Mesa will continue to be maintained independently of X, however X will provide its own Mesa/GL implementation in xlibgl1 (which will provide libgl1) and xlibgl-dev dpsclient Ryuichi Arafune haven't talked to him This package contains libraries as well as executables for some reason; I think the DPS libraries in it are old; their major version number is zero and the ones in XFree86 4.0.1 are 1. rman Stephen Moraco haven't talked to him, see above -- G. Branden Robinson | You can have my PGP passphrase when you Debian GNU/Linux | pry it from my cold, dead brain. branden@deadbeast.net | -- Adam Thornton http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ |
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