[followups to debian-x, please] [7 September] Phase 2 .debs of XFree86 4.0 are now available. These are retrievable with apt, and should upgrade smoothly from version 3.3.6 of XFree86, but please note that they are for testing, not general-purpose use, and the library packages should definitely should not be used to compile packages for upload to Debian.. The xfonts-cjk package may have to be removed (e.g., with apt-get remove xfonts-cjk) before you can dist-upgrade to these packages. I seem to have the dependencies right, so I'm not sure why this is happening. Also note that any packages compiled against an old version of the XPM library will be removed by this upgrade. Bugs were filed against every package with this problem weeks ago, but there are still quite a few stragglers. I've done NMU's for a couple and they are available along with the Phase 2 packages. (Note that all that is required for these XPM-dependent packages is a simple recompile on an up-to-date system; nothing having to do with XFree86 4 is necessary, and in fact building against XFree86 4 libraries would be a very bad idea before official Debian packages exist for them.) Phase 3, a.k.a. upload of official packages to woody, will happen when 1) I've fought any fires that testers find in Phase 2; 2) these packages compile on all architectures Debian supports (or at least the ones with 3.3.6 packages); and 3) when I have ported forward all necessary patches we applied to 3.3.6. I appreciate the patience and assistance I have received to date, just a little more and we'll be there! <http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/woody/> -- G. Branden Robinson | If a man ate a pound of pasta and a Debian GNU/Linux | pound of antipasto, would they cancel branden@deadbeast.net | out, leaving him still hungry? http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | -- Scott Adams
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