Author: branden
Date: 2004-04-21 11:35:44 -0500 (Wed, 21 Apr 2004)
New Revision: 1293
Modified:
NEWS.xhtml
Log:
Add item announcing pending snapshot page reorganization.
Modified: NEWS.xhtml
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--- NEWS.xhtml 2004-04-21 16:34:57 UTC (rev 1292)
+++ NEWS.xhtml 2004-04-21 16:35:44 UTC (rev 1293)
@@ -73,6 +73,16 @@
<h2 id="news">News and announcements</h2>
+ <p>[21 April] <strong>The <a href="/xsf/XFree86/">repository snapshot</a>
page is going to change soon.</strong>
+ For almost a month, I've been testing a <a
href="/xsf/XFree86-svnsite-test/">new way</a> of generating and updating
+ the page. The most important differences are that archives of old
snapshots will be deleted after 7 days instead of
+ 30, duplicates of previous snapshots are not created, and the names of
snapshotted files, directories, and archives
+ now include the Subversion revision number. Please <a
href="/xsf/XFree86-svnsite-test/">have a look</a> and the
+ <code>debian-x</code> mailing list know if there are any problems. If
you're curious to see the script I use for
+ this purpose, <a
href="http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/~branden/svnsite";>here it is</a>. It's
written generically
+ enough (I hope) that it can be useful for SVN-based projects other than
Debian's packages of XFree86.
+ <address>branden</address></p>
+
<p>[21 April] <strong>The next release of XFree86 packages to Debian
unstable will be versioned
4.3.0.dfsg.1-1, not 4.3.0-8.</strong> Some files in the upstream source
distribution contained object code with no
corresponding source, which violates the Debian Free Software Guidelines
(see <a
