On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 05:00:16PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> Since Stephen M Moraco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is currently the rman
> maintainer (he has uploaded rman_3.0.9-1 to incoming a few weeks ago) and my
> intended TkMan deb depends on rman I just want to make sure that everyone here
> is aware to the rman package status.
XFree86 4.0.1 is putting me in the interesting position of having to either
hijack packages from people (libxpm*), or work out some sort of détente
with them (Mesa, rman, and others).
Stephen, can you tell me if rman upstream development has officially been
transferred to XFree86? I know this is the case with the Xpm libraries,
since Xpm was essentially a "finished" spec and implementation a couple of
years back. I know the X guys have been hacking on rman quite a bit, so
this indicated the possibility to me that they have taken over its upstream
maintenance.
Just a note to bystanders reading this. Don't panic, I'm not going to put
4.0.1 in unstable with undeclared conflicts. My initial, experimental
packages may do so, however. Once the Phase 1 .debs are up I'll watch the
reports roll in about exactly what packages 4.0.1 steps on.
Here's what I know so far:
PACKAGE MAINTAINER NOTES
libxpm* Josip Rodin I talked to Josip; these will be swallowed
into my XFree86 packages
libs/headers to xlib6g and xlib6g-dev
xlib6g will provide libxpm4
binaries to xbase-clients
pixmap Paul Slootman haven't talked to him; this package will be
redundant now that xbase-clients "bitmap"
program has equivalent functionality
mesa James Treacy I talked to him; because of GGI and stuff,
Mesa will continue to be maintained
independently of X, however X will provide
its own Mesa/GL implementation in xlibgl1
(which will provide libgl1) and xlibgl-dev
dpsclient Ryuichi Arafune haven't talked to him
This package contains libraries as well as
executables for some reason; I think the
DPS libraries in it are old; their major
version number is zero and the ones in
XFree86 4.0.1 are 1.
rman Stephen Moraco haven't talked to him, see above
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