Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steve Langasek: unstable doesn't mean it's ok to upload packages with known bugs that render the system unusable to many users and drives them away from using unstable because they're using non-free software and that shouldn't matter to us. The consequences of breaking Java for most users

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 22:39:41 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: For a start, it would probably make sense to file Priority: important bugs on sun-java5 and sun-java6 describing the breakage. Then wait a bit, and if upstream is too busy with other things like OpenJDK to address the issue,

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 19 April 2007 03.15:21 David Nusinow wrote: We need to push XCB forward though, and how to deal with the java bug mentioned in that post isn't clear yet. What I don't quite understand is how a non-free package should block this upgrade. Yes, Java is used by a lot of people and

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 03:08:35PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: On Thursday 19 April 2007 03.15:21 David Nusinow wrote: We need to push XCB forward though, and how to deal with the java bug mentioned in that post isn't clear yet. What I don't quite understand is how a non-free package

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:15:21PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: Also of major note, Julien clarified my post a bit in the comments. Most of 7.2 is actually in unstable, including the drivers (in addition, we have pre-release drivers for intel in experimental). The missing thing though is the

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-19 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 04:13:35AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:15:21PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: Also of major note, Julien clarified my post a bit in the comments. Most of 7.2 is actually in unstable, including the drivers (in addition, we have pre-release

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-19 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:57:08PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: If anyone has any mysterious contacts at Sun that they could talk to about this, that'd be great. isn't there this new guy at Sun called 'ian murdoch' ;-) - -- | .''`. == Debian

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-19 Thread Michael Koch
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:57:08PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: If anyone has any mysterious contacts at Sun that they could talk to about this, that'd be great. They've got the bug report in their database, and since the whole java-in-debian thing was a totally backroom affair, I have no idea

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-18 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 08:31:04AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: Just a quick heads-up for those who don't read planet and have been wondering why Xorg 7.2 is lingering in experimental: There's an excellent announcement on David Nusinov's blog at http://gravityboy.livejournal.com/34738

Xorg 7.2

2007-04-17 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yo! Just a quick heads-up for those who don't read planet and have been wondering why Xorg 7.2 is lingering in experimental: There's an excellent announcement on David Nusinov's blog at http://gravityboy.livejournal.com/34738.html. I wish such stuff would be posted to the mailing lists