On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 02:36:58PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 04:18:21AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 10:57:12AM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > This has already been fixed in the modular tree (/cvs/xorg/lib, as > > > opposed to /cvs/xlibs). But I guess the CPPFLAGS scenario remains. > > Excellent. I don't suppose there's any ETA for this fix making it to > > unstable? I've found at least one package that could benefit from it, and I > > imagine there are plenty more. > I'm working on it. The mesa NMU will go in shortly, and after that I need > to figure out exactly how to handle the transition to FHS compliance. I'm > not entirely sure I'm happy with how Daniel did it (although I've yet to > look at it closely). I'm going to do a full analysis and post an RFC either > on debian-x or debian-devel about it. Once that's figured out, the libs, > drivers, and server can all go in to experimental, as they're finished > right now. Following that, there's some work to be done on bundling the > apps and packaging a few miscellaneous things that shouldn't take too long. > If it all works, I'm going to throw it to unstable and see how it goes. But libxft2 is already split out and installed in /usr/lib, so it should be just a simple matter of packaging the new upstream version in order to fix this particular one? Would an NMU be welcome here, or could some other member of the XSF pick it up? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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