rfc: xserver rebase in F20 (was Re: Slipping F21)

Sérgio Basto sergio at serjux.com
Thu Jun 12 11:19:16 UTC 2014


Hi, 
On Qua, 2014-06-11 at 12:40 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: 
> On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 17:19 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > On Qua, 2014-06-11 at 12:09 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: 
> > > On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 17:56 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Oh and xserver  really .. I am the one that gets complaints from users
> > > > that I can't fix because of our ancient x11 stack.
> > > 
> > > I'm not intrinsically _opposed_ to rebasing X in F20.  But it's not
> > > something we've done in any previous Fedora, and there are enough nvidia
> > > users out there that I'd want to be cautious about not breaking them
> > > more than we need to.
> > > 
> > > If That Other Repo doesn't have a problem with getting builds lined up
> > > for nvidia/fglrx/whatever I'd be much more willing to do X rebases in
> > > existing releases.  

About the other repo rpmfusion, we just need some time on
updates-testing to rebuild all drives , but I can ask for more details
on rpmfusion mailing list .


> It's still tricky for things like the xwayland/gnome
> > > lockstep, but I think we know how to handle that.
> > 
> > Hi, why not begin by a xserver rebase in copr ?
> 
> Personally, because I don't feel like doing the work twice.  But if
> someone else wants to, sure, go for it.

the most important thing, for me, is understand what is your opinion (X
team) about testing Xserver 1.15 ,  It is worth testing Xserver 1.15, or
we should focus on 1.16 ?


and sorry about my bad English 
Thanks, 
-- 
Sérgio M. B.



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