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Forwarding this on for David.

Along these lines, my plan is to get 7.1 into experimental, then sid,
and then upload to backports.org (I've already got a working backport of
7.1 server, 7.1's i810 driver, plus a mix of 7.0 and 7.1 libs; see
http://mouth.squishy.cc/~dilinger/xorg-bpo/).

Last night, I got all the proto packages completely lintian-clean (and
updated for a few new upstream releases); I will upload those to
unstable/experimental tonight.  Gravity had already updated the few
proto packages that were new for 7.1, so this is mostly a cleanup of the
existing 7.0 stuff.  After that, I'll start on the libs stuff.  Some of
the libs have already been updated for 7.1, but most have not.  I expect
that to take a little while; we also need to get mesa and libdrm updated
in order to allow things to build.

If anyone has any concerns/reasons why I should hold of on anything I've
planned, do let me know.
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Hey dude, I've just tried sending this mail for a
second time and it hasn't appeared on-list for either
-x or -private that I can see. Would you mind
forwarding it along to -x for me? It'd be nice to let
everyone know why I've been absent for a while now...

--- David Nusinow <david_nusinow@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:42:55 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Nusinow <david_nusinow@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Forced VAC] Now - ?
> To: debian-x@lists.debian.org,
> debian-private@lists.debian.org
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
>    I tried to send this a few days ago but it seems
> to
> have been spam filtered. Stupid shitty webmail
> strikes
> again.
> 
>    Last week my hard drive on my laptop, which is my
> primary machine, began to fail. I managed to pull
> the
> data off of it on to my backup machine, but it turns
> out that my backup machine has faulty hardware of
> some
> sort, causing large numbers of random crashes and
> preventing me from being productive for more than a
> few minutes at a time. I'm in the process of getting
> myself a new computer to replace these old ones, but
> I'm not entirely sure how long this will take.
> 
>    X is in decent, but not fantastic shape right
> now.
> Andres Salomon (aka dilinger) has begun the process
> of
> working on 7.1, and he's managed to backport it to
> sarge with minimal problems. I'm hoping he can
> continue this work, and I encourage anyone on the
> XSF
> (or outside even) to help him out with this. 7.1
> should be staged in experimental prior to uploading
> to
> unstable. Since I don't know how long I'll be out of
> commission, XSF members are welcome to upload X as
> they feel is necessary. This also includes new team
> members Jurij Smakov (aka trave11er) who recently
> joined the team as sparc driver maintainer, and
> Andres. Please collaborate via debian-x before doing
> uploads, as I'll be trying to follow the list as
> best
> I can. If anyone has any questions, feel free to
> email
> or call me. If people want to add themselves to
> uploaders, please call or email me prior to doing so
> as well and we'll discuss it.
> 
>    Notable targes for uploads include, of course,
> 7.1
> and the RC bug list. Other important bits include
> implementing the solution to get rid of the critical
> debconf upgrade note, fixing the xserver
> dpkg-reconfigure script so that it works as
> expected,
> and transitioning the xserver packages from
> primarily
> using read-edid to xresprobe. Any other sort of qa
> work, including lintian cleanups and policy bumps
> are
> encouraged too.
> 
>    Also feel free to NMU any of my non-X packages as
> necessary or desired. I'm ordering a new machine
> today
> and hopefully it'll arrive quickly so that I can get
> back to work.
> 
>  - David Nusinow
> 
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