X Strike Force XFree86 SVN commit: r2205 - /
Author: branden
Date: 2005-03-08 13:40:02 -0500 (Tue, 08 Mar 2005)
New Revision: 2205
Modified:
NEWS.xhtml
Log:
Add item announcing X.Org X11 repository changes.
Modified: NEWS.xhtml
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--- NEWS.xhtml 2005-02-19 07:47:22 UTC (rev 2204)
+++ NEWS.xhtml 2005-03-08 18:40:02 UTC (rev 2205)
@@ -78,6 +78,20 @@
<h2 id="news">News and announcements</h2>
+ <p>[8 March] <strong>A new Subversion repository for X.Org X11 package development has been created.</strong> The
+ ambitious work on modularized packaging (not the same thing as modularization of the X.Org X11 source tree itself,
+ which is being pursued by the <code>freedesktop.org</code> developers) has unfortunately not seen any further
+ development since October, as Fabio's other responsibilities have grown to take more of his time. The good news is
+ that I have begun working on an <code>xorg-x11</code> source package based on the 6.8.2 upstream release. Unlike
+ the <code>xfree86</code> packages, the entire upstream source tree is being tracked in Subversion. You can follow
+ this work at the new <a href="svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xorg-x11/"><code>xorg-x11</code></a> repository.
+ <em>Note: right now work is still in the preliminary phases — identification of goals for a first package
+ release to <code>experimental</code> is being discussed on the <code>debian-x</code> mailing list.</em> The
+ repository housing Fabio's earlier work on modularized packages has been renamed to <a
+ href="svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xorg-x11/"><code>xorg-old</code></a> to avoid confusion with the current work.
+ (If you already have a checkout of the old <code>xorg</code> repository, you can use the command <code>svn switch
+ --relocate</code> to migrate your checkout to the new URL.) <address>branden</address></p>
+
<p>[19 February] <strong>ViewCVS access to the Subversion repositories on <code>necrotic</code> has been
discontinued.</strong> ViewCVS does not appear to grok FSFS-backed repositories, and the package does not seem to
be getting much attention from its maintainer (the version currently in Debian unstable doesn't serve webpages with
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