[ubuntu-x] call for testing: mesa 7.6 RC

[Tormod Volden]

Dear X team and fans,

mesa 7.6 is coming up soon, the first RC will be released Friday and
the final release is expected soon thereafter [1]. We should therefore
give it a solid beating and make sure there are no regressions or
critical bugs - the sooner the better.

We have a Feature Freeze exception granted for mesa 7.6 in karmic [2],
so what we see in the upstream 7.6 branch now should pretty much be
what we will get in karmic final. The current karmic package was
pulled from the master branch more than a month ago, before the 7.6
branch was created. This is some 700 commits ago, but very many of
those are not relevant for what we are shipping (gallium, llvmpipe).

Many of us have been running mesa master from xorg-edgers, but the 7.6
branch has probably not gotten so much testing. Time to catch up :)

So I have pushed a 7.6 snapshot to the X Updates PPA [3]. I will keep
updating it over the next days as it turns into the official RC.
Please test!

For those on xorg-edgers, I would suggest that you back out
xorg-edgers for a few days (you can use ppa-purge for this) and
instead test the 7.6 branch. I have been thinking of forcing the 7.6
package into xorg-edgers for some days, but it would probably cause
too much confusion and not be fair for those running all the R6xx
goodness in master :)

Oh, and seeing the karmic Beta freeze already coming, I would
recommend pushing this into main now, so that any changes post-beta
will be minimal.

Happy testing!
Tormod

[1] <https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=4AB937C3.6040201%40freedesktop.org>

[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/420803

[3] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates