Cyril Brulebois: Debian XSF News #9
This is the ninth Debian XSF News issue. As can be seen below, I m
not yet decided how to present various items. This time, I ll try to
gather all updated packages since the previous issue, grouped by
category, with a single line summary. Lengthy comments come after that
list of updated packages.
- Here come the updated packages, with contributors/uploaders between
square brackets (Timo = Timo Aaltonen, JVdG = Julien Viard de
Galbert, Robert = Robert Hooker).
Protocol:
- [KiBi] x11proto-core:
new upstream release, bringing Sinhala support
experimental
.
- [Timo,KiBi] libx11:
new upstream release, fixing some hang issues
unstable
. - [KiBi] libxi:
new upstream release
unstable
. - [KiBi] libxkbcommon:
finally accepted by ftpmasters, needed for wayland
experimental
.
- [KiBi] xorg-server:
stable release 1.9.5, unlikely to cause regressions from the previous release candidate; in other words: a good candidate for
testing
if the Linux kernel migrates some dayunstable
. - [KiBi] xorg-server:
first release candidate for the first stable bugfix release in the 1.10 series, which finally builds
experimental
.
- [KiBi] xserver-xorg-input-mouse:
two cherry-picks of upstream commits to fix Hurd support, thanks to Samuel Thibault
unstable
. - [KiBi] xserver-xorg-input-mouse:
rebuild of the
unstable
version againstexperimental
s serverexperimental
. - [KiBi] xserver-xorg-video-ati:
new upstream release
experimental
. - [KiBi] xserver-xorg-video-intel:
new upstream release candidate
experimental
. - [JVdG] xserver-xorg-video-openchrome:
new upstream snapshot, and build fix for Hurd
unstable
.
- [KiBi] xorg:
originally a few tweaks to make it possible to install X on Hurd
unstable
- [KiBi] xorg:
but
wkhtmltopdf
failed on several buildds, so I disabled PDF generation, and completed the switch to asciidoc mentioned in DXN#8unstable
. - [KiBi] xorg-sgml-doctools:
new upstream release, adds support for docbook external references
unstable
. - [Robert,KiBi] xutils-dev:
new util-macros release, and a version lookup file
unstable
.
- [KiBi] x11proto-core:
new upstream release, bringing Sinhala support
- Why am I carefully uploading video driver packages to
experimental
only? Because bad regressions happen, on a regular basis; so it seems quite nice to keep well-tested versions inunstable
for now. Once the X stack has migrated totesting
(which as explained in DXN#7 and DXN#8 is waiting for the Linux kernel to migrate), new versions inunstable
are welcome, so that one can tell easily whether bugs with those versions are regressions from the versions available intesting
. In the meanwhile, one can build packages from the git repositories, using thedebian-unstable
branch (which is the default). - Why am I so rash then, uploading input drivers to
unstable
as they are released? First of all, our waiting for the kernel means we have no issues on the 10-day delay front. Second of all, input bugs are usually fixed very quickly upstream (you can go there and thank Peter Hutterer in particular). So staying very close to whatever upstream ships makes some sense. - Why am I uploading drivers twice? Since it isn t specific to the current situation, but a general question when it comes to supporting two versions of the server in parallel, I decided to document that in an handling multiple server versions thanks to experimental page. The answer to this specific question is available in the note at the bottom of that page.