On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Michael Taylor wrote:

> Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> > This came up while helping some clueless Windows exile(e):

> > So, how come Debian "stable" is still at XFree86 4.1?

> Because that is what they had in 'testing' when they released Debian 3.0r0
> (woody) back in July 2002. Currently their 'testing' aka sarge has XFree86 4.2.1
> plus patches (...-12.1) which is scheduled to be made their 'stable' release
> possibly in Feburary I believe.

> Debian's Changelog for XFree86 4.2.1
> <http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xfree86/xfree86_4.2.1-12.1/changelog>

> I don't understand the Debian policy but it would be nice if at least 4.3.0 was
> included in their release of sarge as stable next month.

Yeah, and 4.3 is still "experimental" (not even "testing" or "unstable"),
and we're about to release 4.4...

Anyway, what's this user's easiest path to 4.3?

Marc.

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