libXt release

[Thomas Dickey]

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.
> 
> I'm investigating that...

It looks like some dependency changed, so that makestrs is not automatically
built anymore.  I'm short of time this morning, will continue this evening.

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