{"id":27,"date":"2009-09-23T14:33:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T10:58:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-02-07T09:40:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T08:40:47","slug":"help-neeeded-to-stabilize-libxcb-1-4-and-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/2009\/09\/23\/help-neeeded-to-stabilize-libxcb-1-4-and-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Help neeeded to stabilize libxcb 1.4 and xorg-server 1.6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again. This time, we&#8217;re going for the double sweepstakes as we&#8217;re trying to stabilize both libxcb 1.4 and xorg-server 1.6!<\/p>\n<p>For once, the server upgrade shouldn&#8217;t be too hard and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentoo.org\/proj\/en\/desktop\/x\/x11\/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml\">server upgrade guide<\/a> is remarkably slim. There&#8217;s been no change in input, nor HAL, nor just about anything else for most users.<\/p>\n<p>Only Intel users might have a few surprises with DRI2 and UXA. But at this point, they should be good surprises \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>However, the libxcb upgrade is going to cause more troubles for some users. If you are\/were using <code>x11-libs\/libX11<\/code> with <code>USE=\"xcb\"<\/code>, then you might have to rebuild lots of packages. This is why we&#8217;ve taken such a long time to unmask and stabilize libxcb 1.4. But now, we&#8217;ve worked hard to write a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentoo.org\/proj\/en\/desktop\/x\/x11\/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml\">proper libxcb upgrade guide<\/a>, which users are definitely going to want to read.<\/p>\n<p>I would say the libxcb guide is <strong>more important<\/strong> than the xorg-server upgrade guide.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, right now, I calling out for help among our <strong>stable users<\/strong>. If you&#8217;ve always wanted to contribute to Gentoo but didn&#8217;t know how, here&#8217;s your chance.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Grab the stabilization list from <a href=\"http:\/\/bugs.gentoo.org\/282290\">bug #282290<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Append it to your <code>\/etc\/portage\/package.keywords<\/code><\/li>\n<li>run : <code>emerge -DuNa world<\/code> like always to update<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Again, don&#8217;t forget to read both upgrade guides before running the update, just so you don&#8217;t start panicking when portage is unable to continue the upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>As always, you&#8217;re more than welcome to CC yourself in the stabilization tracker, but please <strong>DO NOT COMMENT IN THE TRACKER<\/strong> if you have issues, you&#8217;ll just annoy everyone there. Just <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.gentoo.org\/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided\">file a new bug<\/a> and we&#8217;ll look at it.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget that most X maintainers lurk in #gentoo-desktop on FreeNode if you have any questions.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again. This time, we&#8217;re going for the double sweepstakes as we&#8217;re trying to stabilize both libxcb 1.4 and xorg-server 1.6! For once, the server upgrade shouldn&#8217;t be too hard and the server upgrade guide is remarkably slim. There&#8217;s been no change in input, nor HAL, nor just about anything else for most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/2009\/09\/23\/help-neeeded-to-stabilize-libxcb-1-4-and-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Help neeeded to stabilize libxcb 1.4 and xorg-server 1.6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/remi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}