X Strike Force XFree86 SVN commit: rev 1003 - /
Author: branden
Date: 2004-02-03 18:37:04 -0500 (Tue, 03 Feb 2004)
New Revision: 1003
Modified:
NEWS.xhtml
Log:
Add item describing patch audit completion and where things go from here.
Modified: NEWS.xhtml
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--- NEWS.xhtml 2004-02-03 23:27:31 UTC (rev 1002)
+++ NEWS.xhtml 2004-02-03 23:37:04 UTC (rev 1003)
@@ -71,6 +71,16 @@
<h2 id="news">News and announcements</h2>
+ <p>[3 February] <strong>The patch audit mentioned in the <a
+ href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/4.3.0/sid/debian/TODO">TODO file</a> for the 4.3.0-1 release has been completed,
+ thanks to the invaluable assistance of Nathanael Nerode and David Nusinow. Once the missing patches have been
+ forward-ported, I will either release 4.3.0-0pre1v6 to experimental, or 4.3.0-1 to unstable. The deciding factor
+ will be how much work it is to merge <code>branches/4.3.0/sid</code> onto the <code>trunk</code> in SVN. (The
+ problem is that the branch wasn't "properly" branched in the first place, but rather an import by Daniel Stone of
+ work he had done outside revision control -- at the time he did it, the XSF SVN repository did not even exist.) I
+ don't want people to have to wait simply while I do repository housekeeping, so if it looks like this will take a
+ long time, I will release 4.3.0-0pre1v6 to experimental to tide people over.</p>
+
<p>[29 January] <strong>XFree86 4.2.1-16 has been accepted into Debian unstable.</strong> This is a minor,
incremental release to resolve an FTBFS (failure-to-build-from-source) bug on the SPARC architecture that has
cropped up since <code>linux-kernel-headers</code>, which uses Linux 2.6 header files, because the canonical Linux
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