6.4.2 and 6.5

[David Nusinow]

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:35:41AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magall??n wrote:
> [ Please Cc: marcelo.magallon at gmail.com ]
> 
> In http://ksub.org/~marcelo/debian/mesa/ I have put two .dsc and
> .diff.gz sets of files.  One is for Mesa 6.4.2 which is probably
> boring for most people reading this.  The other is for 6.5 pulled from
> CVS as of 2005-05-12, which is probably interesting for several people
> reading this message.
> 
> Try building that, specially if you have access to non-i386 architectures.
> 
> If it fails, by all means, please report it.
> 
> This one fixes the i810/i915 getting out of sync with the current
> packages in sid because someone decided to pull a too-new codebase and
> include it in unstable.

Awesome, thanks for handling this. I haven't built it yet here, but I'll do
so soon, although all I've got is an i386.

Now that Xorg 7.1 is out, we need to work out some plan for actually
uploading 6.5 to the archive. My current plan is to stage 7.1 in
experimental very soon, and then when it's stabilized move it to unstable.
Since Brian has said that 6.6 is a ways off, this presents a bit of a
problem since 6.5 is required to build the new server.

My current thinking is that 6.5 should be uploaded to unstable so that Xorg
7.1 can go in too. If you want to put it in to experimental first for a
while, that's totally fine by me. 7.1 is what I'm planning to ship with
etch, so I'd like to have as much user testing and time to stabilize it as
possible.  This is all based on the thought that 6.6 will be released with
plenty of time to get it ready for etch, so we can put 6.5 in unstable for
a while until it's ready. If this isn't likely, then we may just have to
settle for Xorg 7.0 in etch.

I'd like to hear what your plans are for 6.5, and if you think we can put
it in unstable. I'd love to help out however I can, although I'm pretty
swamped still with Xorg bugs so I don't know that I'll have the time beyond
what's needed to get Xorg moving. Let me know what I can do.

 - David Nusinow