On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 01:26:44AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:06:49PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Well, you can upload it to an external repository and put it on > > apt-get.org. XFree86 4.3, as it stands, cannot enter Debian until hppa, > > sh3, sh4, mips, mipsel, m68k and arm porters have a bash at it. s390 and > > hurd-i386 ports are underway (hi guys! haven't forgotten you), but yeah. > > Not near complete yet. > > at least on the mips(el) end things can't be that bad. I'm running 4.3.0 > for months now. Have you ever considered porting work? It rocks! :) > > I can do most everything but the porting. If anyone wants to port to any > > of the architectures listed above, *please* contact me. The Debian diffs > > most likely won't enter 4.3; myself and Mike Harris sat down and decided > > which patches to submit upstream, and submitted them, before 4.3.0. A > > few got submitted, a few got rejected, that's how it goes. > It's kind of hard for porters to: > - know about the issues at all if you don't contact > debian-<arch>@lists.debian.org The last 4 times I tried debian-ports, it got crossassassinated. I gave up after that. > - decide if they should spend time on your 4.3.0 packages if it's not > clear what Branden will do in this regard. Will he pick up your > packages or will he start from his current 4.2.1 packages? Branden and I are already working actively on merging our trees in a Subversion repository (http://deadbeast.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xfree86). -- Daniel Stone <daniel@raging.dropbear.id.au> <dstone@kde.org> KDE: Konquering a desktop near you - http://www.kde.org
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