Re: Modular in Experimental
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:09:40PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 08:36:15PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I've decided to start uploading the modular pieces I'm happy with to
> > experimental. I'll be doing the common packages tonight, and most likely
> > the protocol headers too. I'll move on to the libs shortly after. Beware
> > that the x11-common package does some magic to give us FHFS compliance.
> > It's well tested in Ubuntu (I've uploaded it with no changes) but I can't
> > say for myself how well it'll work (hence going to experimental ;-)
> >
> > I know everyone's waiting for some pieces of 7.0 you can actually run to
> > start showing up in the archive, so now will be the time for it. I hope you
> > guys are interested enough to help move this the way we moved 6.8.2 in to
> > unstable.
>
> Ok, status update: the common-packages are uploaded (xorg-common is in NEW)
> and tonight I uploaded the protocol headers, which are also sitting in NEW.
> Tomorrow I'm going to get started on the libs, which are sitting waiting
> for me to hand-hold their builds in a chroot.
Ok, the libs, as you can see from all the messages, are all uploaded to
experimental. I'll be working on the drivers and such tomorrow. I've
decided to not unbundle the apps at present to avoid disrupting the archive
even more, so I may work on those tomorrow as well if I get time.
- David Nusinow
Reply to: