Hello, ... I have been toying with the idea of producing official debian packages from the bi-monthly X developpment snapshots which were recently announced. This would be my way to stop complaining, and actually do something about the X situation in debian, so i hope it gets the approval of everyone.
Now, these packages, being cvs snapshots, would not be of production quality and would in no way replace either Branden's package or Daniel's unofficial packages. They would help to have a new upstream release who is nearer the quality of the debian package, and help the X strike force to produce packages more quickly after a new X release. Now, i would love to get the opinion of both Daniel and Branden on this, as well as the opinion of the X porters. I understand there is problems with the fact of releasing X packages out of CVS snapshots, and that the user will have to be told (if they read it and such) that they cannot expect from these package the same high quality as from the official packages. I hope this will not cause too much problems or such, and that our users can make the difference between an normal package and a -snapshot package. I would also like this to be an official package, not like Daniel's 4.3.0 package, so that it gets build on each supported arch, so that problems and breakages can easily and quickly get folded back upstream. So, is this a good idea, or do people here have objections to it. BTW, i do this on my own behalf, and don't want to get dragged in on either side of the silly X controversy. Friendly, Sven Luther
