On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 19:16 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: > forcemerge 435691 378594 > thank you > > > > > Nathan A. Stine wrote: > > The folks that develop GATOS have agreed to relicense their software > > under the MIT license[1]. This means that upstream will likely merge > > this code into mainline Xorg. > > > > A patch[2] already exists for 6.6.3. Another for 6.6.191[3], which > > should be adaptable to 6.6.192, the current version in experimental. > > > > I would appreciate patching 6.6.3, but understand if you want to keep > > this patch out of testing/unstable. > > > > I've been following upstream discussion about this. It looks like the > patch is being looked at, ported to new boards, probably needs some > changes for randr-1.2, ... So a better version of the patch might get > merged upstream in the near future. We are probably going to wait a bit > instead of applying it ourself right now. > > People lived with this patch outside of Debian for several years > already, they probably can wait a couple month again :) Once ati driver > 6.7 is released upstream, we'll push it to unstable and might put the > randr-1.2 branch in experimental quickly. The gatos might be merged > upstream soon at this point. > > Brice >
Fair enough, Brice. I need to learn how to patch/build debian packages anyway. This might give me the proper motivation to do so. Best regards, Nathan A. Stine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
