libXt release

[Matt Turner]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 8:03 PM Thomas Dickey <dickey at his.com> wrote:
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> 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)

[0] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/AccountRequests/