Subject: Diffs-only for XFree?

From: "Frank Neumann" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 18:27:21 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi,
I noticed that in the rex/source archive there is currently only the
complete XFree-3.1.2 source tree. Are there any means to get ahold of
just the Debian specific diffs for it, even if they are quite a lot? 
We need to get X11 for m68k debianized, but having to extract the changes that
were made from the complete source tree myself is..somewhat dumb if there 
is another way.

Thanks,
Frank

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From: [email-masked] (Stephen Early)
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 96 15:00 BST

>were made from the complete source tree myself is..somewhat dumb if there 

Debian-specific diffs were hard to produce under the old scheme of
things because of the strange way in which the upstream source was
packaged. The version of the X packages that I will release in the new
source packaging format ought to be a lot more usable.

I assume you don't use XFree86 itself on the m68k platforms, and you
just want to look at the packaging style?

Steve Early
[email-masked]

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From: "Frank Neumann" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 00:51:33 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi,
Steve Early wrote:

[Debian diffs for X11 source tree]
> source packaging format ought to be a lot more usable.

Ok, sounds good - any estimations on the release date of this repackaged
version? Do you want to wait for the stable 3.1.2 release first?

> just want to look at the packaging style?

Well, I do - for a while our m68k X11 system was just a pile of .bin.tar.gz
archives plus large diffs, but Geert Uytterhoeven (m68k hacker) has joined
the XFree86 team some months ago, and the current XFree-3.1.2 beta releases
(where are we? -G?) contain m68k changes, and the binary distributions
also come with complete m68k binaries. We don't use the PC-ish VGA/SVGA etc.
drivers, but a different concept (the kernel based framebuffer device driver).
Anyway - 'our' X11 is also XFree86 now (although the m68k changes are
under a new directory which is nicely named 'xfree68'. :-)

Once you convert the XFree86 source tree to the new source format, adding
the architecture changes for m68k shouldn't be too hard, I think.

Frank