Thanks for your reply. I am not subscribed to the debian-x list, and was not quite sure which was the appropriate list, but now I know.
I have embedded my answers to your questions. David On Friday 18 June 2004 12:04, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > Hi David, > it is always a good idea to redirect these requests to the mailing > list since other people can answer if i am not available, plus they will > be recorded and other users with the same question as your can find easily > an answer. > > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, David Goodenough wrote: > > Fabio, > > > > I have a question about old servers from XFree 3.x now that 4.x is taking > > over in testing, and therefore soon in stable. I have a machine with an > > old S3 adapter for which the server has not been ported, and so I use the > > one from 3.x. > > Which chipset are we talking about? S3 86c864. > > > But that is no longer available in unstable (which I run on this > > machine) so I have to fetch this server from stable. Is there any > > possibility of packaging up these old drivers and making them available > > alongside the 4.x packages on unstable, and therefore testing? > > I am not sure 100% but perhaps it is possible. > > > This should not involve any new work, just copying the old server > > packages from stable and keeping them on unstable. Until the interfaces > > change they should not even need rebuilding. > > Unfortunatly it is not that easy. A package in the archive requires a > source that can be built. Just copying the package won't work. Yes, perhaps the old sources need to be kept to? The problem I guess is the number of other bits that would only be needed to keep these compiling. > > Fabio
