David Nusinow: X.Org: Oops
Last time I blogged about the libglu situation, which I explained was necessary because of the C++ ABI transition in changing over from gcc3 to gcc4. libglu is the one library written in C++ in all of the X.Org source tree, so it was the only one that had to be broken.
It turns out we were wrong about that. libglu is indeed written in C++, but Marcelo Magallon pointed out that it only exports a C ABI, and as such it doesn't need to be transitioned. I have admittedly little experience with shlibs myself, so I didn't know such a thing was even possible, and no one else caught it either. The next version of X.Org, which will be uploaded as soon as I can get it built, will have this fixed, and nvidia-glx, and everything that depended on xlibmesa3-glu will hopefully install just fine once that goes in. Sorry about that everyone.
In addition, this upload should have correct MANIFEST files for all arches, which will hopefully allow it to build successfully on all of them. This will allow X.Org to transition in to etch after a week and a half. This will also unstick gnome 2.10's transition in to etch, which is now tied up with X.Org. Daniel Stone helped pull those MANIFEST updates together, which has been a huge help, so you should send him your hugs 'n kisses. There is an issue with libvgahw which a lot of people have reported, which causes problems when you switch to a virtual text console and then back in to X, which should be fixed in this upload as well (you can thank David Mart nez Moreno for tracking that one down before I could even blink). Finally, xterm bold fonts have been looking like garbage, but Eugene Konev came up with a patch to fix that, which I'm working on rolling in right now.
So if all goes according to plan (that's your cue to laugh mercilessly at me) the next upload will move in to testing just fine, leaving us with room to make larger improvements in the X.Org packaging, as well as working towards getting the (currently unreleased) next version of X.Org in to Debian.
It turns out we were wrong about that. libglu is indeed written in C++, but Marcelo Magallon pointed out that it only exports a C ABI, and as such it doesn't need to be transitioned. I have admittedly little experience with shlibs myself, so I didn't know such a thing was even possible, and no one else caught it either. The next version of X.Org, which will be uploaded as soon as I can get it built, will have this fixed, and nvidia-glx, and everything that depended on xlibmesa3-glu will hopefully install just fine once that goes in. Sorry about that everyone.
In addition, this upload should have correct MANIFEST files for all arches, which will hopefully allow it to build successfully on all of them. This will allow X.Org to transition in to etch after a week and a half. This will also unstick gnome 2.10's transition in to etch, which is now tied up with X.Org. Daniel Stone helped pull those MANIFEST updates together, which has been a huge help, so you should send him your hugs 'n kisses. There is an issue with libvgahw which a lot of people have reported, which causes problems when you switch to a virtual text console and then back in to X, which should be fixed in this upload as well (you can thank David Mart nez Moreno for tracking that one down before I could even blink). Finally, xterm bold fonts have been looking like garbage, but Eugene Konev came up with a patch to fix that, which I'm working on rolling in right now.
So if all goes according to plan (that's your cue to laugh mercilessly at me) the next upload will move in to testing just fine, leaving us with room to make larger improvements in the X.Org packaging, as well as working towards getting the (currently unreleased) next version of X.Org in to Debian.