libXt release

[Niclas Zeising]

On 2019-07-01 00:24, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Niclas Zeising" <zeising+xorg at daemonic.se>
> | To: "Matt Turner" <mattst88 at gmail.com>, "Thomas Dickey" <dickey at his.com>
> | Cc: "xorg-devel" <xorg-devel at lists.x.org>
> | Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2019 4:55:04 PM
> | Subject: Re: libXt release
> 
> | On 2019-06-19 18:56, Matt Turner wrote:
> |> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 8:03 PM Thomas Dickey <dickey at his.com> wrote:
> |>>
> |>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 07:18:21AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> |>>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 05:37:40AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> |>>>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:08:21AM -0400, Matt Turner wrote:
> |>>>>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 4:57 AM Thomas Dickey <dickey at his.com> wrote:
> |>>>>>>
> |>>>>>> On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 08:08:42PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> |>>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 03:43:04PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> |>>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
> |>>>>>>>> | From: "Matt Turner" <mattst88 at gmail.com>
> |>>>>>>>> | To: "Thomas Dickey" <dickey at his.com>
> |>>>>>>>> | Cc: "xorg-devel" <xorg-devel at lists.x.org>
> |>>>>>>>> | Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2019 1:47:04 PM
> |>>>>>>>> | Subject: libXt release
> |>>>>>>>>
> |>>>>>>>> | Hi Thomas,
> |>>>>>>>> |
> |>>>>>>>> | I'd like to do a tarball release of libXt since there are now quite a
> |>>>>>>>> | few commits since 1.1.5, released in 2015. Are you okay with me making
> |>>>>>>>> | a 1.2.0 release now, or is there anything else you would want to get
> |>>>>>>>> | into a new release?
> |>>>>>>>>
> |>>>>>>>> I've been working on some scripts to check for
> |>>>>>>>> breakage in the specification document - might have some fixes there.
> |>>>>>>>>
> |>>>>>>>> I'll review the current state on the weekend, to give better advice.
> |>>>>>>>
> |>>>>>>> I think it's in good shape.  Because of the interface change (using
> |>>>>>>> const), I was going to suggest that it should be 1.2.0
> |>>>>>>
> |>>>>>> I added a merge request for "1.2.0", which I'm testing,
> |>>>>>> should be done tomorrow early (in case someone finds an issue).
> |>>>>>
> |>>>>> Thanks. Are you familiar with the Xorg release scripts [0]? There's a
> |>>>>> wiki page at [1] that has instructions.
> |>>>>>
> |>>>>> If for any reason you have trouble making the release or uploading the
> |>>>>> tarball, let me know and I'll be happy to handle it.
> |>>>>>
> |>>>>> [0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/util/modular/
> |>>>>
> |>>>> hmm - in a quick check, there's something amiss with the distcheck step
> |>>>> because it's not picking up the right path to the makestrs utility
> |>>>> (or failing to build it in parallel, etc).  That's with my Debian/testing
> |>>>> machine.
> |>>
> |>> fixed that...
> |>>
> |>> But I don't have ssh access to the server to upload files.
> |>>
> |>> What is the next step?
> |>
> |> Request an account and attach your GPG pubkey and SSH pubkey. It used
> |> to be filed on Bugzilla, but according to [0] I guess you should use
> |> gitlab. (I don't think anyone's really thought about this since the
> |> gitlab transition)
> |>
> |
> | Hi!
> | Did the new version of libXt actually get released?  I can see the bump
> | in configure.ac, and I can see the tarball got uploaded, but I haven't
> | seen an announcement (although this might just have been forgotten).
> |
> | Just want to double check before I start updating packages.
> | Thank you!
> | Regards
> | --
> | Niclas Zeising
> 
> It's here:
> 
> https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2019-June/059825.html
> 
> but I don't see it here:
> 
> https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2019-June/thread.html
> 
> (it was sent to both lists)
> 

I only looked at the announce list.  I'll remember to have a look at the 
other list as well, in case something similar happens.

Thanks for the explanation!
Regards
-- 
Niclas Zeising