gravityboy (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gravityboy) wrote,@ 2005-08-03 00:53:00 |
|
X Strike Force Moving Forward
Today was a good day in Debian X land. X.Org released the "zeroth" release candidate for both the 6.9 (monolithic) and 7.0 (modular) versions of the X.Org tree. I downloaded the 6.9 tarball, imported it in to the XSF svn repo, and got to work on the patchlist. I'd already ported a number from 6.8, and tonight I managed to finish the rest. Except for a massive GNU/kFreeBSD patch, every single patch in the debian tree has been ported over to 6.9. This work took multiple weeks with multiple people for 6.8 using dbs. Using our new quilt-based patch system I blogged about in the past, this took me about half a week, with the bulk of the work over the past two nights.
Now I haven't actually been able to build 6.9rc0 yet, nor have I been able to build 6.8 for a few days. There's currently a bug in the linux-kernel-headers package that breaks the X.Org build, so the XSF has been working on polishing the -5 release. Eugene Konev has fixed things to we now build HTML docs for xspecs again, for those of you who hate the postscript versions. David Martínez Moreno has been doing an enormous amount of cleanup, generally dealing with a lot of the bugs that have come in and taking care of the new translations that have been flooding in almost as fast as we can change the debconf templates :-) Christian Perrier has joined the team as translation coordinator, so as soon as he can get svn access the X packages should be well taken care of in his amazingly capable hands. Finally, I've included a new script for /etc/init.d supplied by Petter Reinholdtsen that will give Debian LiveCD-derivatives a standard way of generating an X server configuration on boot. Nothing too fancy, but we're tightening up the package a bit more and those fixes have already been merged in to the 6.9 branch.
So if people need updated drivers from Xorg's HEAD, keep an eye out for 6.9rc packages to hit experimental. As soon as I can build and test them, I'll put them there for people to play with. My goal is to get 6.9 in to unstable on the day it's released by upstream. We're (or at least, I'm) going to begin work on 7.0 as soon as 6.9 hits experimental as well, borrowing one more time from Ubuntu and attempting to stabilize that packaging alongside them, if they haven't already beaten us to it completely :-) So things are moving and we're going to try and keep up the momentum.
Some people have also been asking about xcompmgr/transset packages. It's still not packaged for Debian because it's either slow or crashy, depending on your driver, although fixes are in the works. I may have found someone to maintain it for Debian, and I'll try and keep people posted about it when I know more.
Today was a good day in Debian X land. X.Org released the "zeroth" release candidate for both the 6.9 (monolithic) and 7.0 (modular) versions of the X.Org tree. I downloaded the 6.9 tarball, imported it in to the XSF svn repo, and got to work on the patchlist. I'd already ported a number from 6.8, and tonight I managed to finish the rest. Except for a massive GNU/kFreeBSD patch, every single patch in the debian tree has been ported over to 6.9. This work took multiple weeks with multiple people for 6.8 using dbs. Using our new quilt-based patch system I blogged about in the past, this took me about half a week, with the bulk of the work over the past two nights.
Now I haven't actually been able to build 6.9rc0 yet, nor have I been able to build 6.8 for a few days. There's currently a bug in the linux-kernel-headers package that breaks the X.Org build, so the XSF has been working on polishing the -5 release. Eugene Konev has fixed things to we now build HTML docs for xspecs again, for those of you who hate the postscript versions. David Martínez Moreno has been doing an enormous amount of cleanup, generally dealing with a lot of the bugs that have come in and taking care of the new translations that have been flooding in almost as fast as we can change the debconf templates :-) Christian Perrier has joined the team as translation coordinator, so as soon as he can get svn access the X packages should be well taken care of in his amazingly capable hands. Finally, I've included a new script for /etc/init.d supplied by Petter Reinholdtsen that will give Debian LiveCD-derivatives a standard way of generating an X server configuration on boot. Nothing too fancy, but we're tightening up the package a bit more and those fixes have already been merged in to the 6.9 branch.
So if people need updated drivers from Xorg's HEAD, keep an eye out for 6.9rc packages to hit experimental. As soon as I can build and test them, I'll put them there for people to play with. My goal is to get 6.9 in to unstable on the day it's released by upstream. We're (or at least, I'm) going to begin work on 7.0 as soon as 6.9 hits experimental as well, borrowing one more time from Ubuntu and attempting to stabilize that packaging alongside them, if they haven't already beaten us to it completely :-) So things are moving and we're going to try and keep up the momentum.
Some people have also been asking about xcompmgr/transset packages. It's still not packaged for Debian because it's either slow or crashy, depending on your driver, although fixes are in the works. I may have found someone to maintain it for Debian, and I'll try and keep people posted about it when I know more.
