On Mit, 2003-04-02 at 13:21, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:53:19PM +0200, Sven Luther scrawled: > > > I think the main problem here is that debian has been playing catchup > > since i joined in 1998 at least for X. It would be refreshing that it be > > otherwise, but i guess we just don't have the manpower for it, right. We > > could very well decide to drop 4.2.1 and go with 4.3.0 for unstable, > > even before 4.3.0 was released, and have more of our patches be > > incorporated upstream before the release. Such a thing would be > > especially important if the XFree86 project will go for more frequent > > releases, like the discussion on the future of X on the xforum mailing > > list seems to hint at. I also don't see anyone from the debian X team on > > that list, but maybe i have missed it, the list being rather high volume > > after all. > > The problem is that we have by far the best packages of any > distribution, with RedHat our closest competitor in this regard. They're > of an amazingly high quality, and XFree86 upstream releases aren't; > they're code drops that don't work on anything other than i386/powerpc, > usually, and half the time they're even severely brokenn on i386. > Porting it to other architectures is quite a monumental task, so having > 4.3.0 as far as we have it is quite a great achievement IMHO.
Like Sven, I hope that there has been or will be an effort to get the fixes integrated upstream then. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
