On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:44:45PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 12:39:25AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > These are not release-critical problems. All are in reference to the 3.x > > branch of XFree86, which not actively maintained. Patches for Hurd support > > in 4.x are welcome, as will be a bug report against the 4.x server for > > crashing problems; but please wait until 4.x .debs are officially released. > > The packages don't build on the Hurd. Bugs which cause the package to not > build on some architecture have always been considered as bugs of severity > "important". It's unfortunate that the BTS doesn't make a difference between > released and unreleased architectures [1] and maintained and not maintained > packages, but this is not a sound reason to strip the severity. > > In other words, please reverse the severity change. I have talked to Steve, > and he will incorporate my patches and then they can be properly closed. Steve presently appears to be indisposed; I have been handling 3.3.6 for potato and woody both. Steve, if you're out there and not too scarred by your first brush with X, get in touch with me. [...] > [1] We don't even know if the Hurd will or won't be released with the next > Debian version. It certainly won't be released for potato, and the XFree86 packages are changing big time for woody. There is no sensible place for your patches to go. I also find your remark quite ironic in light of the "release" in "release-critical". Please, please, please focus your efforts on XFree86 4.x instead of fighting with me. I have nothing against the Hurd, but 3.3.6 as it exists in potato is dead, dead, dead. There's no sense applying your patches to it; the deltas are far too large for stable-updates, and the only case (in woody) where the 3.3.6 libraries are built is for libc5-compat versions on i386 Linux. (If BenC's dreams come true, I'll trash that as well.) -- G. Branden Robinson | We either learn from history or, Debian GNU/Linux | uh, well, something bad will happen. branden@debian.org | -- Bob Church http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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