libXpm future (Re: File encoding is now UTF-8)

[Kristian Høgsberg]

Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
> 
>> On Monday 06 December 2004 09:28, Egbert Eich wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> That's not entirely true. We 'inherited' Xpm because nobody else feels
>>> responsible for it any more. Now we have to worry about all the security
>>> problems in this lib.
>>
>>
>>
>> So what you're saying is, we should push the Xpm security fixes to the 
>> copy in /cvs/xlibs, and delete it from the monolith, so we don't have 
>> to repeat the 6.8.1 release ever again.
>>
>> Anyone who objects to me doing this on HEAD has until (let's say) 
>> Wednesday Dec 15 to complain.  If we're serious about doing 6.9 as a 
>> modular release we need to start evicting code from the monolith _now_.
> 
> I strongly object for now. Breaking the monolitic tree is not the 
> solution to push work on the modular tree, unless you have a working 
> alternative.

I'm not sure I understand your concern.  I'm pretty sure Adam isn't 
suggesting that we dodge libXpm maintenence by hot potatoing it to the 
modular tree.  And libXpm security updates will sure be less painful.

cheers,
Kristian