Re: Request For Permission To Upload Xorg 7.1 To Unstable
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 20:59 +0000, David Nusinow wrote:
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> This release of the X server features an internal ABI bump. As such,
> we've had to rebuild all of the X video drivers. This task is now complete
> and all of them are either in experimental or incoming.
Do the package dependencies reflect the fact that the new
xserver-xorg-core will break old drivers yet? One idea would be to
change the name of the virtual package xserver-xorg-video to
xserver-xorg-video-1.0 (reflecting the current video driver ABI version
1.0) and make xserver-xorg-core 1.1 Conflicts: xserver-xorg-video.
> Please note that mesa will also need to be uploaded to unstable. The
> current version in experimental is a CVS snapshot, however we require a
> development version of mesa to build and run the current X server. Mesa
> upstream is supposed to do a release soonish, and we'll look to get it in
> to Debian ASAP so that we don't have to ship etch with a CVS pull.
> Currently though, it's looking pretty stable for a large number of users,
> so I think this won't be a problem.
I agree, however, there is an issue similar to the one above in that
mesa-swx11-source 6.5 will make xorg-server 1.0 FTBFS. Might be worth
uploading another iteration of xorg-server 1.0 with Build-Depends:
mesa-swx11-source (<< 6.5.0) or Build-Conflicts: mesa-swx11-source (>>
6.5.0) added to make the archive scripts aware of this.
> Finally, also note that this version of Xorg features AIGLX, and with
> some patching allow Debian users to run compiz.
Note that AIGLX still has some rough edges (e.g., the 3D drivers will
call exit() in some error conditions, which isn't a nice failure mode
for the X server...), so it might be better to disable it at runtime by
default.
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