Xorg 6.9
Hello Release Team,
X.Org is planning on making a release of 6.9 and 7.0 in about a week.
I've been preparing packages for 6.9, the monolithic release, based off the
current Xorg packages. They've been sitting in experimental and they've
been fairly well tested judging by the bug reports we've gotten so far. The
packages that went in to experimental today are for RC3, which represent an
essentially code-complete version of what will be the final release. The
remainder should be documentation updates and modular build system updates.
As such, the current packages should represent what will be the final 6.9
release.
I realize that there's a lot of transitions going on right now, but I'd
like permission to upload 6.9 final to unstable upon release. Here are the
consequences of doing this that I'm currently aware of:
1) Render and Xrender both need updates, with an soversion bump. These
packages are basically ready, and have been in experimental for some
time, and with some small amount of polish they'll be ready to go.
2) The only lib to get an soversion change in xorg-x11 itself is libICE,
which has a minor soversion bump to allow it to be built modularly.
3) xlibs-dev goes away. I already wrote about this to -devel-announce,
and many packages have updated their build dependencies, including most
recently gtk. This will almost definitely be the most drastic of the
changes with this update, but it will also serve to pave the way for the
modular packages, which is currently my main focus of attention.
The majority of the packaging is the same as what's currently in unstable.
The majority of the builds will choke on the MANIFEST again, but now that I
know what I'm doing with respect to that system (which I didn't during the
original xorg uploads) I can get that fixed for the second revision of the
packages, provided the toolchains are working.
The benefit to allowing the update to go through will be to allow newer
driver revisions, numerous bugfixes, and it will also pave the way for the
modular packages, which I am attempting to finish in time for etch.
So if it's Ok to let this go through next week that'd be great news, and if
not I'd like to hear what I'll be waiting on so I can track how things
progress. Thanks!
- David Nusinow
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