On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:10:30AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 03:55 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Hi Drew, > > > > A bit of followup to my bug report. > > > > 1) You'll need to either epoch xprt or have the xprt package use a > > different version number from the rest of your source package[1], since > > 0.1.0.alpha1-8 is less than 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10. (It's also less than > > 4.1.0-16[blah], the woody versions of xprt.) > > > > Oh yeah, I hadn't thought about that side of it. I'd go with an epoch, I > think. > > I'll plan to move the binary into xprt, making xprt-xprintorg the dummy > package, retiring it once mozilla and x-window-system change their > dependencies to xprt.
Sounds reasonable to me. > > Daniel Stone has just emailed debian-x asserting that "the head of Xprint > > development is now X.Org", which is not a statement that is challenged in > > any way by my move to drop xprt from the XFree86 packages, but that's > > Daniel for you. > > > > Daniel raised something like this last time. I tried to explain that > xprt-xprintorg *is* X.org's Xprint. (in fact our current 0.1.0.alpha1 > is Xprint CVS from Xorg 6.8.2). Bug fixes to the X.org CVS tree will > make it to the Xprint head (and therefore into xprt-xprintorg) before > they get to the stable X.org branch. Right. And if you just use the "xprt" name, you neatly sidestep the tedious and tiresome arguments about X.Org vs. xprint.org. > Someone might say they want strictly the same Xprint from the stable > version of X.org, but I don't think anything is really gained by this. > As Daniel himself points out, we are heading towards a modularised > X.org, in which case Xprint will continue to release its own stable > versions in its own time. So we might as well start that now. His point was pretty moot anyway, as to the best of my recollection, Debian's *never* patched the Xprt server. There was really no reason to as it was totally useless. If Ubuntu is, well, that's their challenge to grapple with. With a working XPRINT server implementation in Debian, keeping the obsolete and nonfunctional one around for the sarge release seemed increasingly unjustified. -- G. Branden Robinson | There is no housing shortage in Debian GNU/Linux | Lincoln today -- just a rumor that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is put about by people who have http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | nowhere to live. -- G. L. Murfin
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