Re: 6.4.2 and 6.5
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:26:10PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:39:14PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
>
> > Now that Xorg 7.1 is out, we need to work out some plan for actually
> > uploading 6.5 to the archive. My current plan is to stage 7.1 in
> > experimental very soon, and then when it's stabilized move it to
> > unstable. Since Brian has said that 6.6 is a ways off, this presents
> > a bit of a problem since 6.5 is required to build the new server.
>
> Ok, my intention is to upload 6.5 to experimental. I have held up the
> upload because after a few cycles of "this should fix the optimized
> build, no it doesn't" I stumbled across the fact that an optimized
> build won't even work because apparently GCC 4.1 is doing something
> different wtr some other version of GCC (3.3 is my guess).
>
> I will disable the optimized build and upload that.
>
> > My current thinking is that 6.5 should be uploaded to unstable so
> > that Xorg 7.1 can go in too. If you want to put it in to experimental
> > first for a while, that's totally fine by me. 7.1 is what I'm
> > planning to ship with etch, so I'd like to have as much user testing
> > and time to stabilize it as possible.
>
> I'd like to have 6.5 in experimental for some time, yes.
Fantastic. Ok, I've still got plenty of bugs in Xorg 7.0 to squash, so
feel free to take your time getting 6.5 in to experimental. Once it's
there, I'll get started on putting Xorg 7.1 in, and we can coordinate the
upload to unstable then.
- David Nusinow
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