On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:24:59PM -0300, Pedro Pedruzzi wrote: >> Hello, Bryce. Thanks for the reply. >> >> Em 09-05-2012 02:57, Bryce Harrington escreveu: >> > Yes, we'd love to provide those updates. I think we know what needs >> > done, it's just a time issue. Is it something you'd be interested in >> > lending a hand on? >> >> Yes, I'd love to give it a try. >> >> However, my free-time has been scarce. So how much work is needed for >> this? (considering that I have never said "make" to X before ;-) > > It's not super hard but we also all have rather full plates. > PPA updates fall into a second tier urgency so sometimes it takes a > while for us to get to them. However, they're also things that are > quite easy for community folks to get involved with, so we like to > encourage involvement there. > >> Do you have a sketch task list to accomplish this? > > Yes, essentially what we're thinking is to set up one PPA for each > xserver point release, kind of like what the kernel team does with their > mainline kernel PPA. > > So, each point release would need to have the debian packaging added, > and then a PPA created under the xorg-edgers team. For the 12.0 release
Wouldn't it make more sense to add these point releases to x-updates (like Pedro also suggested) or some other PPA under x-swat rather than xorg-edgers? Stable point release are not really edgy, experimental stuff... The x-updates PPA is for stable upstream releases. Can't fit the bill better. Otherwise there is also the (currently disabled) x-backports PPA although it is unclear to me what would go there instead of to x-updates. Simple backports of Ubuntu N packages into Ubuntu N-1 maybe? Tormod -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
