On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 06:49:19PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > 1) Release 4.2.1-7 (it was on, then it was off, now it's on again). See > http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/changelog?rev=44&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup > for why. I think I can handle this, and LaMont Jones will thank me. :) > (Even if everyone else will curse my name for it not being 4.3.0-1. :-P)
Is there anything else that needs to be done in trunk/ to get it out as
a 4.2.1-7? As it has to go out before 4.3.0, I don't see why it
shouldn't take priority, if it needs work.
> 2) The xlibs bustup. Currently I envision:
> * One shared lib, -dev, and -dbg package for every shared
> library except those with a different upstream (fontconfig,
> xft, xrender, xcursor).
> * xlibs-dev continues to live on as a dumping ground for
> hated old static-only libraries.
Why not a new xlibs-static package, or such, leaving xlibs-dev being no
more than a metapackage?
> * xlibs-pic can continue to live on as a counterpart to
> xlibs-dev, except these static libraries will contain
> policy-violating PIC symbols. I disagree with upstream's
> solution to the static/PIC problem and I think we should go
> ahead with Matthieu Herrb's solution from patch #046.
debian/patches/046_piclib_support.diff, from 4.2.1? If that's what
you've decided, that's fine - you know a great deal more about PIC than
I (or Jack Horwarth ;) do.
> The binaries are the toughest part. The prospect of libx11-6-bin,
> libsm6-bin, libxt6-bin, etc., makes me vomit. At the same time people
> screech bloody murder about GL dependencies in xbase-clients when all
> they want is xauth. The Athena clients can easily be split off. Any
> other proposals? I'm still mulling over the thought of an xauth-static
> package. xauth links against 3 X libraries: libXmuu.so.1, libXext.so.6,
> and libX11.so.6. If we have libx11-6-bin, libxext6-bin, and
> libxmuu6-bin packages people will always guess wrong.
Well, we could make a 'core' package, with only a very small amount of
binaries (xauth, xhost, that sort of thing), and then put everything
else in the -bin package; either that, or have
libx11-6-bin/libxext6-bin/libxmuu6-bin Provides: xauth.
> Hmm, I'm forgetting other things for my enumerated list at present.
> Well, that's what discussion threads are for.
3) Bug porters.
Thanks!
:) d
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