On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:58:28AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > The short answer is "porting". The XFree86 project has little or no > support for most of Debian's architectures, and making sure that a new > version works on non-i386 machines takes quite a while.
This job seems pretty much done now; everyone but sh/freebsd/netbsd/amd64 have sorted their stuff out, and none of them are release architectures. > The second answer is "integration". The number of packaging issues > which come up in packaging such a big project are very large, and it can > take quite a while to resolve them all. Yes. Splitting xlibs/xbase-clients, breaking the xlibs build out so you can choose to use the freedesktop.org versions ... none of this is particularly easy. > The more specific-to-right-now answer is that even adapting all of the > preexisting Debian patches (against 4.2.1) to patch 4.3.0 seems to be > taking quite a while. I believe that the way they are being updated is > intended to make this process easier in the future, although any member > of the X Strike Force may correct me. :-) Branden's going through and checking all the patches for any regressions that may have occurred; I intend to start helping with this sometime after Tuesday, in between post-exam celebrations. Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian X Strike Force: http://people.debian.org/~branden/xsf/
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