Re: Feature Freeze

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

David wrote:
> Ok... let me try this again without the psychotic power tripping...

Thanks for the fresh start.  I appreciate the pain it took to get here.

> 
> As Drew pointed out, we're missing some updates that do need to get done.
> I did a few updates last night of the input drivers, but there's a few
> missing still. When it was just me doing everything for 7.0, I could keep
> track in my head of what was going on. That's obviously not going to work
> now. As a possible solution, I created a wiki page based on the one Drew
> did as an attempt to help coordinate driver uploads [0]. It is located at
> http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/ReleaseStatus.

This page will work well I think.  I'll keep updating the input drivers
bit by bit until they're all done, and will mark them as "frozen" on
the wiki when done.

I've been gauging package state by the version table on
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-x@lists.debian.org A
couple of libs seem to have dropped through the cracks: libxres to be
precise. There is a minor update for libxau located upstream, as well
as libXScreenSaver, which I suppose we should include. I didn't touch
libXScreenSaver previously because I wasn't sure how best to manage it
in regards to libxss. Keep the old name? Update to the new?

I'm interested in packaging the developmental i810 (intel) modesetting
branch. Alan is keen for people to test it. I'd think to call the new
package xserver-xorg-video-intel, since I think X.org upstream will be
calling it "intel" once it's finally released.  I'd put lots of "this
driver is a development snapshot, only use it if you really mean it"
warnings into the description.

Thanks,

Drew