On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:11:29AM +0000, Philip Armstrong wrote: > This is now a FAQ answered in the Debian X package docs :) Synopsis: > Debian is waiting for the modular, autotooled X.org sources to > happen before shifting to the new X release, on the grounds that > otherwise they'd have to do all the work (porting the patches, > checking it all etc etc) twice -- once for the monolithic X.org > sources and again for the autotooled sources.
[This is a bit off-topic, to say nothing of 3 months late, but I thought I'd offer the correction nonetheless.] That's not true. We do intend to package the monolithic X.Org X11 release, much as Ubuntu has done. That work has started at <URL: http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/svn/xorg-x11/trunk/ >. While there's still a fair amount of work to be done, that repository makes things look even leaner than they are because a lot of the stuff that just copies over from the xfree86 packaging without modification hasn't been copied yet. Right now I'm working through some fairly low-level decisions with the X Strike Force guys, such as selection of a new patch management system. -- G. Branden Robinson | That's the saving grace of humor: Debian GNU/Linux | if you fail, no one is laughing at [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- A. Whitney Brown
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