Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 22:39:41 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > For a start, it would probably make sense to file Priority: important > bugs on sun-java5 and sun-java6 describing the breakage. Then wait a > bit, and if upstream is too busy with other things like OpenJDK to > address the issue, up

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steve Langasek: > "unstable" doesn't mean "it's ok to upload packages with known bugs > that render the system unusable to many users and drives them away > from using unstable because they're using non-free software and that > shouldn't matter to us". The consequences of breaking Java for most

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 03:08:35PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Thursday 19 April 2007 03.15:21 David Nusinow wrote: > > We > > need to push XCB forward though, and how to deal with the java bug > > mentioned in that post isn't clear yet. > What I don't quite understand is how a non-free p

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 19 April 2007 03.15:21 David Nusinow wrote: > We > need to push XCB forward though, and how to deal with the java bug > mentioned in that post isn't clear yet. What I don't quite understand is how a non-free package should block this upgrade. Yes, Java is used by a lot of people and

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-19 Thread Michael Koch
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:57:08PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > If anyone has any mysterious contacts at Sun that they could talk to about > this, that'd be great. They've got the bug report in their database, and > since the whole "java-in-debian" thing was a totally backroom affair, I > have no

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-19 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:57:08PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > If anyone has any mysterious contacts at Sun that they could talk to about > this, that'd be great. isn't there this new guy at Sun called 'ian murdoch' ;-) - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-19 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 04:13:35AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:15:21PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > > Also of major note, Julien clarified my post a bit in the comments. Most of > > 7.2 is actually in unstable, including the drivers (in addition, we have > > pre-relea

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:15:21PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > Also of major note, Julien clarified my post a bit in the comments. Most of > 7.2 is actually in unstable, including the drivers (in addition, we have > pre-release drivers for intel in experimental). The missing thing though is > the

Re: Xorg 7.2

2007-04-18 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 08:31:04AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Just a quick heads-up for those who don't read planet and have been > wondering why Xorg 7.2 is lingering in experimental: There's an excellent > announcement on David Nusinov's blog at > <htt

Xorg 7.2

2007-04-16 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yo! Just a quick heads-up for those who don't read planet and have been wondering why Xorg 7.2 is lingering in experimental: There's an excellent announcement on David Nusinov's blog at <http://gravityboy.livejournal.com/34738.html>. I wish such stuff would be posted to