libXt release

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 11:01:27PM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> On 2019-07-01 00:24, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >| From: "Niclas Zeising" <zeising+xorg at daemonic.se>
> >| To: "Matt Turner" <mattst88 at gmail.com>, "Thomas Dickey" <dickey at his.com>
> >| Cc: "xorg-devel" <xorg-devel at lists.x.org>
> >| Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2019 4:55:04 PM
> >| Subject: Re: libXt release
> >
> >| 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
> >
> >It's here:
> >
> >https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2019-June/059825.html
> >
> >but I don't see it here:
> >
> >https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2019-June/thread.html
> >
> >(it was sent to both lists)
> >
> 
> I only looked at the announce list.  I'll remember to have a look at the
> other list as well, in case something similar happens.
> 
> Thanks for the explanation!

I created an issue

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/issues/168

to follow up on this, will bounce my announcement there when it's resolved.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey at invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net
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