[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] Bug#730552: provide xserver-xorg-source package for building 3rd party software (e.g. VNC) reusing XOrg codebase

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Sat, 30 Nov 2013, Julien Cristau wrote:

> > Since better later than never, I have decided to file this wishlist to discuss
> > such a possibility.  do you see any particular concerns against?  would you
> > prefer a patch or work it our yourself?

> Please provide a patch.

Please find initial attempt attached -- review, critique is welcome but
would be even better if some xserver pkg expert would just improve up
it.  

I have distributed sources in the -source packge

- as a tarball  since they would most probably would need to be patched
  anyways, thus would need to be copied, and better --just extracted
- as .xz since it becomes used widely and provides better compression
- I left the distributed tarball unversioned to ease/disambiguate its
  use by projects needing xorg sources to build upon

Cheers!

-- 
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