Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (761 mails)

[Mariusz Fik <fisiu82@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dnia środa, 11 kwietnia 2012 16:07:03 Stefan Dirsch pisze:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:51:23AM -0400, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a
DimStar wrote:
> > Quoting Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > On 2012/04/11 15:11 (GMT+0200) Andreas Jaeger composed:
> > > > Stefan wants to do it but has not had time for it yet.
> > >
> > > New Xorg got into 12.1 rather late too. Did it or other things
> > > pile on Stefan's already full plate due to the not so recent any
> > > more rounds of paid staff reductions, maybe mfabian?
> > >
> > > > So, if somebody steps up and helps, I expect Stefan would be happy about
> > > > it,> >
> > > What would be involved to "step up" for someone who has never
> > > built or packaged before? Wouldn't Xorg be more involved than
> > > lower profile packages?
> >
> > I think it's absolutely not a beginners package. In order to work on
> > this you either need moderate knowledge on packaging or, more
> > importantly, knowledge about x11 itself (starting with where to find
> > the sources :) )
> >
> > The package is one of the 'tops' when it comes to the number of
> > patches... of which probably a bunch can be dropped now; blindly
> > dropping them on the other hand is not a good move neither... which
> > results in 'checking every single one' for it's use, understanding
> > it, and possibly rebasing on top of the new xorg 1.12.
>
> I can only second this. Updating xorg-x11-server packages is mainly about
> adjusting patches (still a bunch are not upstreamed yet; some like the VNC
> patches can never be upstreamed!). Second part is doing the required lib
> package updates, when xorg-server fails due to an outdated lib (which is
> mostly trivial).
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan

I started update some time ago. I aimed in 1.11.4. Some paches was already
upstream, some need adjust to new code. It seems that VNC pach set will be the
hardest parf of updating xorg-x11-xserver. My partially work is in:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=xorg-x11-
server&project=home%3AFisiu%3Abranches%3AX11%3AXOrg

I can start updating to 1.12.0 but I some help with VNC patches will be
needed.
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Pozdrawiam / Best regards,
Mariusz Fik
openSUSE Community Member
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