[ubuntu-x] xorg-server 1.12 on X Updates PPA

[Tormod Volden]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:24:59PM -0300, Pedro Pedruzzi wrote:
>> Hello, Bryce. Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> Em 09-05-2012 02:57, Bryce Harrington escreveu:
>> > Yes, we'd love to provide those updates.  I think we know what needs
>> > done, it's just a time issue.  Is it something you'd be interested in
>> > lending a hand on?
>>
>> Yes, I'd love to give it a try.
>>
>> However, my free-time has been scarce. So how much work is needed for
>> this? (considering that I have never said "make" to X before ;-)
>
> It's not super hard but we also all have rather full plates.
> PPA updates fall into a second tier urgency so sometimes it takes a
> while for us to get to them.  However, they're also things that are
> quite easy for community folks to get involved with, so we like to
> encourage involvement there.
>
>> Do you have a sketch task list to accomplish this?
>
> Yes, essentially what we're thinking is to set up one PPA for each
> xserver point release, kind of like what the kernel team does with their
> mainline kernel PPA.
>
> So, each point release would need to have the debian packaging added,
> and then a PPA created under the xorg-edgers team.  For the 12.0 release

Wouldn't it make more sense to add these point releases to x-updates
(like Pedro also suggested) or some other PPA under x-swat rather than
xorg-edgers? Stable point release are not really edgy, experimental
stuff...

The x-updates PPA is for stable upstream releases. Can't fit the bill
better. Otherwise there is also the (currently disabled) x-backports
PPA although it is unclear to me what would go there instead of to
x-updates. Simple backports of Ubuntu N packages into Ubuntu N-1
maybe?

Tormod