Xdmx packages missing in hardy

[Chris]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg

Filed against xserver-xorg, since choosing Xdmx (which is recognized correctly) results in an error.

Hello,

for some unknown reason the packages xdmx and xdmx-tools are missing in hardy.
xdmx provides network distributed X multihead support, a feature i can not find in any other package or software. Please see discussion at [1]. The xdmx packages from gutsy ([2] and [3]) seem to work fine in hardy though. So there's no real reason I can see why the were removed.

Please provide these packages again in the future.

[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=331801
[2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/xdmx
[3] http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/x11/xdmx-tools

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Thanks for your report. It seems that dmx was disabled since Debian xorg-server 2:1.3.99.0-1 because it failed to build and this ended up in Hardy. It was enabled again recently (after Hardy released): <http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/xserver/xorg-server.git;a=commitdiff;h=732faeda97c84bfa2847f2da5436ff6d72a15b69>

Maybe you can use the Hardy source package and just enable dmx and rebuild.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

I think this deserves an update to hardy.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Leaving open for hardy.

[TJ (tj)]

Hardy fix created. debdiff attached. It can be tested from my PPA.

xorg-server (2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu10) hardy; urgency=low

  * Fix xdmx failed-to-build-from-source. Source fix back-ported from Intrepid,
     Makefile fix created independently (LP: #242191).
  * Add Build-Depends mesa-common-dev (>> 7.0.1~rc2-1).
  * Re-enable packages xdmx and xdmx-tools.

 -- TJ <email address hidden> Sat, 4 Oct 2008 22:00:00 +0200

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".