The TB doesn't exist at the moment. :( https://launchpad.net/~techboard/+members#active
But if it did, I'd want to know what the fall out looks like. How extensively have these updates been tested? Do other X folks agree it's okay? What does the SRU team think of it? -Kees On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:48:07AM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: > Hey, > > I would like to request a MRE for getting the saucy libdrm copied to precise, > quantal, raring. > Something similar has been done before, for getting the raring libdrm in > quantal and precise[1]. > libdrm cannot be renamed because it's an integral part of the system. > Plymouth may fail > with older libdrm's, because it will not know about the newer pci-ids. > > Similarly, I want to copy pixman from raring to quantal and precise. This > package is used as > the base rendering library for cairo and xorg. The xorg-server headers depend > on pixman for > some definitions, so I think upgrading pixman is preferred to renaming. > Renaming will run into > all sorts of issues, again because packages cannot depend on versioned > depends when the > package is renamed. The xserver in quantal has an identical abi to the one in > raring, so copying > it should be harmless, but might in the worst case cause it to expose some > cairo bugs that have > been in raring. The effects on precise I'm less certain about, I haven't > noticed any issues when > testing against precise cairo, and upstream is conservative about updating > pixman. > > Last, I want to request a MRE for libxi and x11proto-input in precise. The > upstream pointer barriers > have been merged, and I need to update libxi with a newer upstream version to > get those pointer > barriers. I've written a patch to allow runtime detection in unity/unity-2d, > so it can use the new or > old pointer barrier methods when it connects to the server and requests the > xfixes/xi2 version. > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdrm/+bug/1171340 > > -- > technical-board mailing list > technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board -- Kees Cook -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
