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Re: gnome-randr-applet and Xfree86 4.3.0 ...



On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:41:57PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:18:08PM +0200, Sven Luther scrawled:
> > Why not just upload it to sid (it is already in the NEW queue btw), it
> > will not be installable for people not using 4.3.0 so it will not break
> > anything for anyone. How do i make it visible that i have packaged it if
> > nobody can see it ? Should i make a wnpp ITP bugreport and give the link
> > to the repository in it ?
> 
> Well, it'll break the buildds, and be uninstallable in sid. That makes
> it either contrib or experimental removal. I suggest ITPing it and
> linking to your repository for the time being. The ftpmasters won't
> accept it, I can guarantee that now.

I can let it sit in the NEW queue though, or should i ask for its
removal ? What about uploading it to experimental instead or something
such ?

> > > Ralf Nolden has done a woody backport of my packages, but IIRC sarge is
> > > glibc 2.3 now, so the sid packages will probably work.
> > 
> > I don't care about woody. I just want the package to be available for
> > whoever can use it, if someone wants to make a woody backport, fine for
> > him.
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> > That said, i am a bit worried about XFree86 4.3.0 and sarge, 4.2.1 is
> > not yet ready for sarge, and if a release/freeze for around july is
> > planned, this let's little time to fully test 4.3.0, which seems to be
> > already somewhat obsolet by now, if you consider all the flaming in
> > upstreams xfree86-forum mailing list.
> 
> Well, considering it's the best we have to work with right now, that's
> what we're running with.

I am not sure i really understood you here, you are saying that 4.2.1 is
the best we have, and we have to make do with it, right ?

I think the main problem here is that debian has been playing catchup
since i joined in 1998 at least for X. It would be refreshing that it be
otherwise, but i guess we just don't have the manpower for it, right. We
could very well decide to drop 4.2.1 and go with 4.3.0 for unstable,
even before 4.3.0 was released, and have more of our patches be
incorporated upstream before the release. Such a thing would be
especially important if the XFree86 project will go for more frequent
releases, like the discussion on the future of X on the xforum mailing
list seems to hint at. I also don't see anyone from the debian X team on
that list, but maybe i have missed it, the list being rather high volume
after all.

> > BTW, when i first login into X, and open an xterm, and try to type into
> > it, i get some garbage characters (either just a c, or a succession of
> > cs). Is this a known bug or something ?
> 
> Not that I know of, and certainly not without more info.

What kind of info would be needed ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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