On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > no problem, ... > > i have to say that was very useful for building this packages, and that i > applied the patches and tried to resolve most of the rejections quickly. > > it took me less time than to compile all the stuff. > > i needed them, since since my partition crash i reinstalled debian, and the > old ppc > packages didn't work for me, and i was not able to build X from the > 3.3.2.3a-8.1 sources. > > 3.3.3.1 builds cleanly under powerpc, and it facilitate things a lot i think > for us. > > i had to play with the debian/create-arch stuff to add the same exception for > ppc than for m68k, > and i solved the (unreported i think) parse-x86config bug than prevented xdm > from booting when > using the XF68_FBDEV server. > > anyway, i will be happy if someone will take this stuff from my hands again, > but in the mean time, > i needed a working X on ppc, so ...
One thing I would like to note. The fact that Sven created the packages for powerpc, somehow gives us a headstart. By the time the first official 3.3.3 packages are out, we -that is debian/ppc- will be using 3.3.3 for some time and will have bug fixes, suggestions, etc. for the final release. It would save us a lot of time, and instead of being the following platform, it would give us a lead and if anything it would show that debian/ppc is quite active. If it agreeable with the rest, I propose that once Sven has been quite sure about the packages and they have had some testing, we should make this known, Slashdot/Freshmeat anyone? Konstantinos Margaritis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
