Re: gnome-randr-applet and Xfree86 4.3.0 ...
On Mit, 2003-04-02 at 13:21, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:53:19PM +0200, Sven Luther scrawled:
>
> > 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.
>
> The problem is that we have by far the best packages of any
> distribution, with RedHat our closest competitor in this regard. They're
> of an amazingly high quality, and XFree86 upstream releases aren't;
> they're code drops that don't work on anything other than i386/powerpc,
> usually, and half the time they're even severely brokenn on i386.
> Porting it to other architectures is quite a monumental task, so having
> 4.3.0 as far as we have it is quite a great achievement IMHO.
Like Sven, I hope that there has been or will be an effort to get the
fixes integrated upstream then.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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