On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:00:35PM -0700, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > 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?
Install the experimental package (if he runs sarge or unstable already), if he runs woody, the best guess would be Michel Daenzer's dri-trunk packages : # Michel's DRI packages deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk ./ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk ./ As backporting 4.3.0 to debian/woody needs that you already have a running 4.2.1 backport and some other dependency hell. Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
