Author: branden
Date: 2004-03-18 23:13:39 -0500 (Thu, 18 Mar 2004)
New Revision: 1167
Modified:
NEWS.xhtml
Log:
Correct a couple of broken links.
Fix all URLs to necrotic to omit the host portion (it's not wise to
hard-code the specific hostname).
Modified: NEWS.xhtml
===================================================================
--- NEWS.xhtml 2004-03-19 04:07:59 UTC (rev 1166)
+++ NEWS.xhtml 2004-03-19 04:13:39 UTC (rev 1167)
@@ -84,9 +84,8 @@
agreed on the <code>debian-x</code> mailing list that releases no longer
be made from the trunk. Instead, the trunk
is where development happens (except, as before, for highly-disruptive or
long-term changes that require a branch of
their own), and a change is meregd onto a release branch only once it is
known to work. The <a
- href="http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/README.txt";>README</a>
document has been updated accordingly,
- <code>branches/4.3.0/sid</code> has been re-created, and <a
- href="http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/";>nightly snapshots</a> of
it will be made again.
+ href="/xsf/XFree86/README.txt">README</a> document has been updated
accordingly, <code>branches/4.3.0/sid</code> has
+ been re-created, and <a href="/xsf/XFree86/">nightly snapshots</a> of it
will be made again.
<address>branden</address></p>
<p>[17 March] <strong>XFree86 4.3.0-6 has been accepted into Debian
unstable.</strong>
@@ -103,8 +102,8 @@
TODO file identifying important work to be done -- have been added to the
navigation links above.</strong>
<address>branden</address></p>
- <p>[26 February] <strong>The X Strike Force Subversion installation has
been upgraded to Subversion 1.0.</strong>
- To my knowledge, there are no compatibility issues between Subversion 0.37
and Subversion 1.0. Nevertheless, I
+ <p>[26 February] <strong>The X Strike Force Subversion installation has
been upgraded to Subversion 1.0.</strong> To
+ my knowledge, there are no compatibility issues between Subversion 0.37
and Subversion 1.0. Nevertheless, I
encourage users of the XSF Subversion repositories to upgrade.
<address>branden</address></p>
<p>[18 February] <strong>XFree86 4.3.0-2 has been accepted into Debian
unstable.</strong> (XFree86 4.3.0-1 is
@@ -138,8 +137,8 @@
been forward-ported, I will either release 4.3.0-0pre1v6 to experimental,
or 4.3.0-1 to unstable. The deciding
factor will be how much work it is to merge
<code>branches/4.3.0/sid</code> onto the <code>trunk</code> in SVN.
(The problem is that the branch wasn't "properly" branched in the first
place, but rather an import by Daniel Stone
- of work he had done outside revision control -- at the time he did it, the
XSF SVN repository did not even exist.)
- I don't want people to have to wait simply while I do repository
housekeeping, so if it looks like this will take a
+ of work he had done outside revision control -- at the time he did it, the
XSF SVN repository did not even exist.) I
+ don't want people to have to wait simply while I do repository
housekeeping, so if it looks like this will take a
long time, I will release 4.3.0-0pre1v6 to experimental to tide people
over. <address>branden</address></p>
<p>[29 January] <strong>XFree86 4.2.1-16 has been accepted into Debian
unstable.</strong> This is a minor,
@@ -148,31 +147,24 @@
kernel headers package for Build-Depends purposes. Most of my time has
been going into preparing 4.3.0-1.
<address>branden</address></p>
- <p>[20 January] <strong>A link to the <a
- href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/4.3.0/sid/debian/TODO">TODO file</a>
for upload of XFree86 4.3.0-1 to Debian
- unstable has been added to the links above.</strong> As of this writing,
all that remains is completion of the
- patch audit. Nathanael Nerode has been helping out tremendously with
this. When 4.3.0-1 is finally uploaded, be
- sure to include him in your <span class="line-through">thank-you</span>
it's-about-damn-time messages.
- <address>branden</address></p>
+ <p>[20 January] <strong>A link to the <a
href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/4.3.0/sid/debian/TODO">TODO file</a>
+ for upload of XFree86 4.3.0-1 to Debian unstable has been added to the
links above.</strong> As of this writing,
+ all that remains is completion of the patch audit. Nathanael Nerode has
been helping out tremendously with this.
+ When 4.3.0-1 is finally uploaded, be sure to include him in your <span
class="line-through">thank-you</span>
+ it's-about-damn-time messages. <address>branden</address></p>
<h3>2003 News</h3>
<p>[28 December] <strong>XFree86 4.3.0-0pre1v5 has been accepted into
Debian experimental, and Daniel Stone's
- temporary packages have thus been removed.</strong>
- <address>daniel</address></p>
+ temporary packages have thus been removed.</strong>
<address>daniel</address></p>
- <p>[21 December] <strong>Unfortunately, due to the recent
- <a
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/debian-announce-2003/msg00001.html";>compromise
of Debian
- machines</a>, no <code>queue/new</code> processing is taking place, as the
ftpmasters are too busy. In the meantime,
- Daniel Stone is providing 4.3.0-0pre1v5 packages for i386.</strong> They
can be found at:<br /> <code>deb
- http://people.debian.org/~daniels/ xfree86/</code>
- <br />
- If you use these temporary packages, please remove the experimental stanza
from <code>/etc/apt/preferences</code>,
- or insert this stanza:<br />
- <code>Package: *<br />
- Pin: release a=xfree86<br />
- Pin-Priority: 1002</code>
- <address>daniel</address></p>
+ <p>[21 December] <strong>Unfortunately, due to the recent <a
+
href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/debian-announce-2003/msg00001.html";>compromise
of Debian machines</a>,
+ no <code>queue/new</code> processing is taking place, as the ftpmasters
are too busy. In the meantime, Daniel Stone
+ is providing 4.3.0-0pre1v5 packages for i386.</strong> They can be found
at:<br /> <code>deb
+ http://people.debian.org/~daniels/ xfree86/</code> <br /> If you use these
temporary packages, please remove the
+ experimental stanza from <code>/etc/apt/preferences</code>, or insert this
stanza:<br /> <code>Package: *<br /> Pin:
+ release a=xfree86<br /> Pin-Priority: 1002</code>
<address>daniel</address></p>
<p>[21 December] <strong>This news page is now managed as part of the X
Strike Force's XFree86 Subversion
repository, and is no longer maintained at Branden's
<code>people.debian.org</code> homepage</strong>. Any news
@@ -182,12 +174,12 @@
or tags in the repository, progress reports on large or long-term
projects, and so forth.
<address>branden</address></p>
- <p>[18 December] <strong>A <a
href="http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/CHANGELOG.txt";>cumulative
changelog
- of the X Strike Force XFree86 Subversion repository</a> is now
available.</strong></p>
+ <p>[18 December] <strong>A <a href="/xsf/XFree86/CHANGELOG.txt">cumulative
changelog of the X Strike Force XFree86
+ Subversion repository</a> is now available.</strong></p>
<p>[18 December] <strong>The X Strike Force XFree86 Subversion repository
snapshots and information page has been
- moved.</strong> An HTTP redirect is in place, but please update your links
to the <a href=
- "http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86";>new location</a> anyway.</p>
+ moved.</strong> An HTTP redirect is in place, but please update your links
to the <a href= "/xsf/XFree86">new
+ location</a> anyway.</p>
<p>[18 December] <strong>XFree86 4.2.1-15 has been accepted into Debian
unstable.</strong></p>
@@ -200,9 +192,9 @@
planned pre-release of XFree86 4.3.0-1. Due to time constraints, the
package split of xbase-clients has been
postponed to the packaging of the next upstream release; however the
<code>xlibs</code> split is complete. All that
remains is for me to finish the audit of patches forward-ported from
4.2.1, and for the Debian archive
- administrators to process the (many) override updates that are necessary
in light of the library package split
- (once the latter is done, the packages will be moved out of
<code>queue/new</code> and into the experimental
- section of the Debian archive).</p>
+ administrators to process the (many) override updates that are necessary
in light of the library package split (once
+ the latter is done, the packages will be moved out of
<code>queue/new</code> and into the experimental section of
+ the Debian archive).</p>
<p>[13 November] <strong>XFree86 4.2.1-14 has been accepted into Debian
unstable.</strong></p>
@@ -230,51 +222,49 @@
"http://subversion.tigris.org/";>Subversion</a> is increasingly popular as
a revision control system for Debian
packages.</p>
- <p>[15 September] <strong>The <a
href="http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/";>ViewCVS interface</a>
to
- the X Strike Force repository is working again.</strong> I extend my
appreciation to Takuo KITAME for updating
- Debian's <code>viewcvs</code> package.</p>
+ <p>[15 September] <strong>The <a href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/">ViewCVS
interface</a> to the X Strike Force repository
+ is working again.</strong> I extend my appreciation to Takuo KITAME for
updating Debian's <code>viewcvs</code>
+ package.</p>
<p>[12 September] <strong>XFree86 4.1.0-16woody1, a security update for
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 ("woody") is
available.</strong> For more information, please see <a
href="http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-380";>the
advisory</a>.</p>
<p>[1 September] <strong><code>-print0</code> comes at the <em>end</em> of
your <code>find</code> command, not the
- beginning.</strong> I apologize, some of the stuff at the <a
href="http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/";>daily
- progress</a> site was destroyed by a rogue find command. I've restored the
upstream source archives, but the
- archived snapshots are gone. I have been really spoiled by GNU
getopt-style option parsing. Again, I apologize for
- the inconvenience; if someone should happen to need a snapshot as of a
particular date, please <a href=
- "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">contact me</a>.</p>
+ beginning.</strong> I apologize, some of the stuff at the <a
href="/xfree86/">daily progress</a> site was destroyed
+ by a rogue find command. I've restored the upstream source archives, but
the archived snapshots are gone. I have
+ been really spoiled by GNU getopt-style option parsing. Again, I apologize
for the inconvenience; if someone should
+ happen to need a snapshot as of a particular date, please <a href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">contact me</a>.</p>
<p>[28 August] <strong>XFree86 4.2.1-11 has been accepted into Debian
unstable.</strong> This is a bugfix release
that rectifies several problems (some of them serious) with the migration
process to the New World Order for
configuration files.</p>
- <p>[21 August] <strong>You can watch the <a
href="http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/";>daily progress</a> of
- Debian's XFree86 packaging via the Web.</strong> I have set up some cron
jobs to populate a directory with
- directory exports, tar archives, and Subversion repository dumps, since
Debian's ViewCVS packages are so
- unreliable. Read the <a
href="http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/README.txt";>README</a> to
understand how to use
- this resource.</p>
+ <p>[21 August] <strong>You can watch the <a href="/xfree86/">daily
progress</a> of Debian's XFree86 packaging via
+ the Web.</strong> I have set up some cron jobs to populate a directory
with directory exports, tar archives, and
+ Subversion repository dumps, since Debian's ViewCVS packages are so
unreliable. Read the <a
+ href="/xfree86/README.txt">README</a> to understand how to use this
resource.</p>
<p>[20 August] <strong>XFree86 4.2.1-10 has been accepted into Debian
unstable.</strong> This release features
bugfixes and a migration away from the much-hated "manage
<code>file</code> with debconf?" style of configuration
file handling.</p>
- <p>[31 July] <strong>XFree86 4.3.0-0pre1v1 has been released to Debian
experimental. [UPDATE, 5 September: Note
- that this is <em>Debian's experimental archive</em>, not mine. Google for
"Debian project experimental" to find a
+ <p>[31 July] <strong>XFree86 4.3.0-0pre1v1 has been released to Debian
experimental. [UPDATE, 5 September: Note that
+ this is <em>Debian's experimental archive</em>, not mine. Google for
"Debian project experimental" to find a
mirror.]</strong> Since there are packages that will need override
updates, it may take up to a few days for the
- archive administrators to make this release available in the experimental
distribution. Also, it is my
- understanding that the experimental distribution is not autobuilt, so port
maintainers may need to compile this
- package manually for architectures other than PowerPC. Many thanks to
Daniel Stone, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi, and the rest
- of the X Strike Force committing team for making this release possible.</p>
+ archive administrators to make this release available in the experimental
distribution. Also, it is my understanding
+ that the experimental distribution is not autobuilt, so port maintainers
may need to compile this package manually
+ for architectures other than PowerPC. Many thanks to Daniel Stone,
ISHIKAWA Mutsumi, and the rest of the X Strike
+ Force committing team for making this release possible.</p>
<p>[30 June] <strong>XFree86 4.2.1-9 has been accepted into Debian
unstable.</strong></p>
<p>[9 June] <strong>XFree86 4.2.1-8 has been accepted into Debian
unstable.</strong></p>
<p>[5 June] <strong>Nightly "drops" of the <code>debian</code> directory
of the trunk and 4.3.0-sid branch of the
- XFree86 packages are <a href="http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/";>now
available</a>.</strong> This will enable
- people to build either the trunk or the 4.3.0-sid branch for themselves
from source. (You'll need to be familiar
- with how to manipulate and build Debian source packages to get the most
out of this service.)</p>
+ XFree86 packages are <a href="/xfree86/">now available</a>.</strong> This
will enable people to build either the
+ trunk or the 4.3.0-sid branch for themselves from source. (You'll need to
be familiar with how to manipulate and
+ build Debian source packages to get the most out of this service.)</p>
<p>[3 June] I have posted an <a href=
"http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200306/msg00000.html";>announcement</a>
@@ -283,12 +273,11 @@
<p>[30 May] <strong>XFree86 4.2.1-7 has been accepted into Debian
unstable.</strong> Plans change. It had not been
my intention to release another revision of 4.2.1 at all, but LaMont Jones
persuaded me to due to problems building
- KDE on some architectures due to the absence of a libxkbfile_pic.a file.
This release also fixes several
- outstanding issues, of course. <em>I expect this release to continue to
have Int10 problems on the IA-64
- architecture, and for the Radeon 3D acceleration to continue to be broken
due to GCC 3.2 issues. XFree86 4.3.0
- should resolve these issues, and packaging of XFree86 4.3.0 is
underway.</em> Progress on its development can be
- scrutinized at the <a
href="http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/";>Debian X Strike Force
Subversion
- repository</a>.</p>
+ KDE on some architectures due to the absence of a libxkbfile_pic.a file.
This release also fixes several outstanding
+ issues, of course. <em>I expect this release to continue to have Int10
problems on the IA-64 architecture, and for
+ the Radeon 3D acceleration to continue to be broken due to GCC 3.2 issues.
XFree86 4.3.0 should resolve these
+ issues, and packaging of XFree86 4.3.0 is underway.</em> Progress on its
development can be scrutinized at the <a
+ href="/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/">Debian X Strike Force Subversion
repository</a>.</p>
<p>[18 April] Because of various problems with the XFree86 4.2.1 source
tree when it is compiled with GCC 3.2, I
have abandoned work on 4.2.1-7. Instead I am working on 4.3.0 packages,
using the preliminary work by Daniel Stone
