On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:59:25PM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I will not have Debian's XFree86 packages break protocol compatibility > > with upstream XFree86. > > Of course this is a very very good argument perfectly understandable. I'm not trying to sound hostile about it, it's just that it would be a very rude thing to do to our users. > Im working on pushing them to X.org and hopefully to get atleast an answer > back. If there will be no answer XFree86 will be the next step, and I > perfectly agree with you about a good deep review. IMO you should go XFree86 first. They are the leading implementation of the X Window System and have a reputation for being more responsive. They're certainly more open. > I leave up to you if you wish to close this bug or not. I do not mind > either way and for sure i'm not the one going to play tennis with BTS ;) I'm not going to close it right now. I'm tagging it "moreinfo". The info I need is: * Do these patches change the X protocol? If so, I will tag the bug "wontfix, upstream" and close it. If not, I might be willing to put then in a Debian package as long as I understand the impact. > Thanks a lot to all the people that have answered back with comments and > help. Thanks a lot for working on this. -- G. Branden Robinson | Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He branden@debian.org | makes us suffer Christianity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Aaron Dunsmore
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