[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Upcoming testing migration for X

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi,

just to let you know a bit in advance, the following packages should
be mostly ready to transition in like a week:
 - pixman
 - libdrm
 - mesa
 - xorg-server
 - xorg
 - many many too many xserver-xorg-{input,video}-*

As “usual” it's pretty much self-contained. The worrying bits are:
 - pixman's bug: #613221 (http://bugs.debian.org/613221)
   Probably not a bug in pixman actually, but GNUstep's having
   troubles with it at run-time. According to Yavor[1], breaking
   GNUstep in testing should be acceptable (he's one of the GNUstep
   maintainers).
 - pixman itself: it seemed to me that upstream snapshots were sane
   enough to go to unstable, which upstream confirmed[2].
 - xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: It needs a kernel >= 2.6.34 as
   documented in its README.Debian, so having it in testing without a
   matching kernel will cause some issues to nouveau users. They can
   still switch to the fbdev driver until the kernel is ready. I'm not
   really keen on having X stack's testing migration wait on the
   kernel. Neither am I happy to annoy nouveau users. But well,
   nouveau developers like to believe they have no users. :(

 1. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34335#c13
 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2011/02/msg01870.html

If that's OK with you, I'll just downgrade the severity of the pixman
bug to important (until it's investigated, probably through the
upstream bug report), and not (re)open a bug against the nouveau
driver.

KiBi.