[ubuntu-x] xi2 PPA

[Thomas Jaeger]

Sorry, I forgot to mention the address of the PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~thjaeger/+archive/xorg-xi2

Thomas Jaeger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've put together a PPA for testing Peter Hutterer's new XI2 code (see
> [1]).  This code is still experimental, but I have the feeling that
> there won't be a lot of time for developers to test their (XInput-aware)
> applications between 1.7 being branched off and the 1.7 release, so it
> might be helpful to test early.
> 
> A couple of points that will probably come up when packaging newer X
> servers:
> * the new libXi fails to build in parallel (I've been wondering for the
> last couple of days why the package built fine in a local pbuilder but
> FTBFS in the PPA)
> * the X server requires the dri package, which mesa currently doesn't
> install (bug #379797)
> 
> It'll probably take a couple of hours for all the packages to build.
> 
> Tom
> 
> [1] http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-March/000514.html