I've take some time this morning to work on xcb-util packaging. I've mainly urge that work because Sebastian Dröge, the sweet cairo maintainer, agreed to enable the cairo XCB backend (#474353), which requires xcb-util.

The first upload I've made was built from the latest upstream release which is old (i.e. more than one year old). So I've put a git repository in place this morning and packaged the latest git upstream version, with some good patches from Arnaud (upstream+patches branch), that the upstream XCB developers are still reviewing since several weeks: that is the cost to pay for good code quality؟

Thanks to Sebastian, the new xcb-util targeted for unstable was just arrived in incoming that he already uploaded a new version of the Debian cairo package with XCB backend enabled.

Well, that's a very good day for me since it means that building awesome 3 is no more a PITA (hi MadCoder!) since every dependency is available in the Debian archive.