libXt release

Niclas Zeising zeising+xorg at daemonic.se
Sun Jun 30 20:55:04 UTC 2019


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


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