David Nusinow wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: >> [other xsf members, feel free to chime in if I'm forgetting something or >> saying something stupid :)] >> >> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 14:41:24 +0200, Marc Brockschmidt wrote: >> >> >>> * Which major upstream releases of X.org are expected in the next two >>> years? Which of those are material for Debian stable, which might >>> be a bit >>> flaky? >>> >>> >> X.org release management is notoriously pretty bad. Releases often slip >> by months, and bugs in .0 server releases aren't unheard of. See also >> http://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2009-release_engineering/mgp00009.html >> >> >> Anyway, there's no schedule for 1.7 to my knowledge, let alone for the >> subsequent releases. I'd guess server 1.7 (and X.Org 7.5) will come >> before the end of the year, though, so that seems like a good candidate >> for a squeeze release in 2010. >> > > My main worry for 1.7 is that it probably won't give us a lot of time to > shake bugs out of XKB2. We're not historically very good at dealing with > the guts of the input system anyway, and that XKB2 won't provide any > immediate user-visible changes that seem to make it a must have (if I'm > wrong here, please correct me!) On the other hand, with the 1.6 servers > we finally have a stable input system again, so my sense is that we > should probably be conservative and go with the 1.6 branches for squeeze > given our short time frame.
Upstream just announced that they won't be including XKB2 in this release after all, since it needs some more time to cook. Given that, I think we should shoot for 1.7 and any further useful patches for squeeze. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
