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["Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT codemages.net>]

On 22:37:53 2008-08-21 "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Andraž will soon be working on merging the devel-xorg-modular branch  
> into test, unless he finds large issues with it. I would ask that  
> everyone using the devel-xorg-modular branch to file any bugs they  
> have with xorg-modular against Bug #13845[0] so we may track any  
> remaining issues.
> 
> If you currently have xorg, xfree86, or any of the older, monolithic,  
> X11 implementations installed, please test an upgrade to the  
> devel-xorg-modular branch (not the xorg-modular tarball hosted on  
> download.sourcemage.org, if you want a tarball of devel-xorg-modular,  
> try the one from Elisamuel "ryuji" Resto on  
> http://simplysam.us/codex/). If you run into any issues, file them  
> against Bug #13845[0].
> 
> If no issues are found soon, devel-xorg-modular will be merged into  
> test, so it is in your best interest to help test before then. ;)
> 

Bugs seemed to be resolved now. I'm setting the merge deadline for this
friday: 2008-08-29 17:00 UTC.

If ANYONE knows of ANY bugs that might be important enough to not merge
file them into bugzilla or post here.

After that -modular should soak in test for a month so that devs can get
painfully familiar with it and how to transition to it safely from monolithic
xorg. Then the normal stable-rc -> stable way to go.

Users affected:
Anyone with any of the following spells installed
xdirectfb
xfree86
xfree86-4.3
xfree86-devel
xfree86-libs
xorg

Unless you have the spell on hold it will trigger a cast of xorg-profile
which will in turn install xorg-server, xorg-libs and various drivers. The
driver query will happen twice once from xorg-profile and again from
xorg-server. The one in xorg-server is atm a noop and the profile won't
exists for much longer once it hits stable, it's only a transitional tool.

That's all for now...

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