Don Stewart
nomeata:
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Debian packages are being uploaded at the moment and should arrive at a mirror near you within the next day.
Wonderful!
Note to the package guys:
An updated (and api compatible) release of the Haskell X11 library is also out, and fixes a stability issue (java and pidgin apps would crash, typically).
That's worth updating too:
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11-1.4.2
I hope the opportunity is taken to fix #469852. (I think it just involves building on a machine with libxinerama-dev. That's all I did, anyway.) Over the weekend I (finally) upgraded my hand-built xmonad from way-back to the debian packages. And it all went very well. I had to redo the configuration and stuff, but 0.6.3 makes that much cleaner and more powerful. The biggest annoyance was lack of xinerama, so I needed to rebuild haskell-x11, xmonad, xmonad-contrib (and install the build dependencies). Not a major problem, but it's an irritation. Otherwise the debian packages would be very nice out of the box. They'd make xmonad a natural choice for any debian users wanting a tiling wm, I think.