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



On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 04:42:07PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > 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 know ;)

> > > 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.
Well, that's why I wrote debian-<arch>@. You can easily address only
the ports that are still not being handeld. It helps porters who don't
follow debian-x.

> 
> >  - 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).
Great! I'll build packages for mips once they pop up at the X strike
force.
 -- Guido

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