Hi Thomas, thanks for doing this! Are you a member of xorg-edgers? This looks like an excellent candidate for putting into a secondary PPA under xorg-edgers, or perhaps even the main PPA. What do you think? Any ideas on when XI2 may be merged into the main xserver tree?
Bryce On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:11:11PM -0400, Thomas Jaeger wrote: > Hi, > > I've put together a PPA for testing Peter Hutterer's new XI2 code (see > [1]). This code is still experimental, but I have the feeling that > there won't be a lot of time for developers to test their (XInput-aware) > applications between 1.7 being branched off and the 1.7 release, so it > might be helpful to test early. > > A couple of points that will probably come up when packaging newer X > servers: > * the new libXi fails to build in parallel (I've been wondering for the > last couple of days why the package built fine in a local pbuilder but > FTBFS in the PPA) > * the X server requires the dri package, which mesa currently doesn't > install (bug #379797) > > It'll probably take a couple of hours for all the packages to build. > > Tom > > [1] http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-March/000514.html > > -- > Ubuntu-x mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
