On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:12:28PM -0500, Michael Taylor wrote: > Marc Aurele La France wrote: > > This came up while helping some clueless Windows exile(e): > > > > So, how come Debian "stable" is still at XFree86 4.1? > > Because that is what they had in 'testing' when they released Debian 3.0r0 > (woody) back in July 2002. Currently their 'testing' aka sarge has XFree86 4.2.1
Well, woody was frozen in early 2002, and scheduled to be released in april/may, but the actual release was delayed for putting up the security infrastructure needed to build security updates on all supported arches. > plus patches (...-12.1) which is scheduled to be made their 'stable' release > possibly in Feburary I believe. Err, i think that 4.3.0-1 will go into unstable soon, and will probably be the one which will go in the next debian release. Only sparc and s390 packages are missing, and sparc will be built soon. I don't know if we will wait for s390. > Debian's Changelog for XFree86 4.2.1 > <http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xfree86/xfree86_4.2.1-12.1/changelog> Also of interest : http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/NEWS.xhtml and particularly this NEWS item : [20 January] A link to the TODO file for upload of XFree86 4.3.0-1 to Debian unstable has been added to the links above. As of this writing, all that remains is completion of the patch audit. Nathanael Nerode has been helping out tremendously with this. When 4.3.0-1 is finally uploaded, be sure to include him in your thank-you it's-about-damn-time messages. > I don't understand the Debian policy but it would be nice if at least 4.3.0 was > included in their release of sarge as stable next month. A debian/sarge release next month would most assuredly be premature. Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
