Ben: Thanks for the update. I'm somewhat at a loss of how to proceed with a 4.3.0 package. Since it contains thread support, it should replace both xfree86-base and xfree86-base-threaded. At the same time, I'd like to merge the -base and -rootless variants. So, the new package should replace xfree86-base, -base-threaded, -rootless and -rootless-threaded. Unfortunately, with all the intertwined dependencies I think this is impossible. So, I think we may have to resort to telling people to use the dreaded "dpkg -r --force-depends" in order to make this transition. Have you found a way around this with your experimental package?
-Jeff On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Benjamin Reed wrote: > On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 06:46 PM, Torrey Lyons wrote: > > > The code freeze for XFree86 4.3.0 will be any day now. I believe the > > Mac OS X/Darwin part of the code base is pretty much in final form. > > Benjamin put together a package in fink unstable which builds > > something very close to the top of the tree. I would encourage as many > > people as possible to give it a try. The libraries and clients from > > this version will be used for Apple's final release of X11 although > > the X server will not be synced up until after 4.3.0 is out. Please > > let me know promptly if you find any bugs. > > > > There has been only one bug fix since Benjamin's package was put > > together: In 16-bit color pixmaps could sometimes appear shifted by 1 > > pixel from what was intended. > > Actually I updated it to a new snapshot as of this morning, so if you > get it now, you get one that should include that fix (I watch the X > commits list and saw the bugfixes). > > Jeffrey Whitaker is actually the maintainer of XFree86 in Fink, but I > just wanted to reiterate that the packages in experimental are for the > most part for my own edification, and because I was doing some testing > for Torrey. > > Jeff, I don't know what your plans are for release, but if you want > them, feel free to take over the packages in my exp tree. I'm pretty > certain they would need looking at, I didn't double-check that the > shlibs stuff is right and that type of thing, so these aren't > release-ready in the fink sense, although they're perfectly good for > helping Torrey test. > > As of the last snapshots, things have worked pretty good as far as > backwards-compatibility with software built against xfree86 4.2, but > keep in mind that if you plan on testing this, and you build something > against it, it won't work if you want to go back to 4.2.1.1 (including > Apple's X11). =) > -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1 FAX : (303)497-6449 325 Broadway Web : http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw Boulder, CO, USA 80305-3328 Office: Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
