On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 03:55 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Drew,
> 
> A bit of followup to my bug report.
> 
> 1) You'll need to either epoch xprt or have the xprt package use a
> different version number from the rest of your source package[1], since
> 0.1.0.alpha1-8 is less than 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10.  (It's also less than
> 4.1.0-16[blah], the woody versions of xprt.)
> 

Oh yeah, I hadn't thought about that side of it. I'd go with an epoch, I
think.  

I'll plan to move the binary into xprt, making xprt-xprintorg the dummy
package, retiring it once mozilla and x-window-system change their
dependencies to xprt.


> Daniel Stone has just emailed debian-x asserting that "the head of Xprint
> development is now X.Org", which is not a statement that is challenged in
> any way by my move to drop xprt from the XFree86 packages, but that's
> Daniel for you.
> 

Daniel raised something like this last time.  I tried to explain that
xprt-xprintorg *is* X.org's Xprint.  (in fact our current 0.1.0.alpha1
is Xprint CVS from Xorg 6.8.2).  Bug fixes to the X.org CVS tree will
make it to the Xprint head (and therefore into xprt-xprintorg) before
they get to the stable X.org branch.

Someone might say they want strictly the same Xprint from the stable
version of X.org, but I don't think anything is really gained by this.
As Daniel himself points out, we are heading towards a modularised
X.org, in which case Xprint will continue to release its own stable
versions in its own time.  So we might as well start that now.

Drew





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