The following process works (after a very long build process) to get xfree86 4.0.99.1 debs. They seem to work (I'm running with xserver-xfree86 and xserver-common from these now) but I make absolutely no claims as to quality. I did all of this as root, which is naughty but it worked.
# apt-get build-dep xserver-xfree86 (I got 4.0.2-7) # apt-get source xserver-xfree86 # cvs -r xf-4_0_99_1 co xc # tar zcvf xfree86-4.0.99.1.tar.gz xc # cd xfree86-4.0.2 # mv upstream/archives/xfree*.tar.gz .. # mv debian/patches/400_alpha_support.diff .. (do the same for a bunch of other patches - basically all the ones that fail when you run the "debian/rules binary" line below. You can just repeat that step after moving each failed patch out of the way...) # mv ../xfree86-4.0.99.1.tar.gz upstream/archives # vi debian/changelog (add a new line for 4.0.99.1-0local1 by myself) # debian/rules binary (binary-server seems to fail because it doesn't build libXext but it does try to link against it. This could be a bug or a side-effect of the fact that I'm building an unreleased source) This build fails with a manifest error, which can be resolved by copying MANIFEST.i386.new to MANIFEST.i386. Backup MANIFEST.i386 first though, because you need to diff it and modify a few of the .files files to account for changed names. Do a diff -u and look for lines beginning with "-". With a bit of guesswork and grepping it's easy to identify which package each of those should have been in; change the relevant xxx.files or xxx.files.i386 file as appropriate. re-run debian/rules binary and you should get working packages (at least, xserver-common and xserver-xfree86 are working for me right now). Anyone who is interested in the resulting debs, please send me email. I don't have any convenient webspace to throw it onto. Thanks Stuart.
