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Kristian Høgsberg krh at bitplanet.net
Sun Dec 12 14:06:45 PST 2004


Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Monday 06 December 2004 09:28, Egbert Eich wrote:
> 
>>Keith Packard writes:
>> > Around 0 o'clock on Dec 4, Markus Kuhn wrote:
>> > > I have not yet converted anything under xc/extras/. Shall I convert
>> > > anything there as well, or should this better be left to upsteam
>> > > maintainers?
>> >
>> > Extras is supposed to be an exact copy of a specific upstream release,
>> > so we shouldn't ever commit our own changes there.  Feel free to whine
>> > at the upstream maintainers if you like.
>>
>>That's not entirely true. We 'inherited' Xpm because nobody else feels
>>responsible for it any more. Now we have to worry about all the security
>>problems in this lib.
> 
> 
> So what you're saying is, we should push the Xpm security fixes to the copy 
> in /cvs/xlibs, and delete it from the monolith, so we don't have to repeat 
> the 6.8.1 release ever again.
> 
> Anyone who objects to me doing this on HEAD has until (let's say) Wednesday 
> Dec 15 to complain.  If we're serious about doing 6.9 as a modular release we 
> need to start evicting code from the monolith _now_.

Is this the general way we're going with the libs when we modularize the 
tree? My impression was that we would start from the current monolithic 
tree and split that out into separate libs and apps.

Kristian



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