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Date:      Fri, 18 Dec 2020 22:15:40 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 251947] x11-servers/xwayland: deprecate in favor of -devel version
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Bug 251947: x11-servers/xwayland: deprecate in favor of -devel version
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D251947



--- Description ---
I'd like to take maintainership but... only when 1.21.0 is released which m=
ay
never happen[1]. Given no known working[2] compositor uses this port let's
avoid spreading QA too thin. For example, xf86-video-intel gave up on track=
ing
releases years ago.

Fedora 34 plans[3] to use development snapshot(s). Once released xserver may
have fewer (if any) hw/xwayland changes in 1.20.*, leaving server-1.20-bran=
ch
mainly for hw/xfree86 (bare metal). So, my current proposal is to add the
following:

  DEPRECATED=3D	   Upstream no longer maintains Xwayland on stable branches,
use x11-servers/xwayland-devel instead
  EXPIRATION_DATE=3D 2021-04-01

[1] https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server.html
[2] kwin_wayland isn't usable yet, see
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/wayland-plasma-5-16-1-error-no-libinput.=
7127
1/
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/XwaylandStandalone



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