Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:15:32 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>, Will Andrews <will@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/XFree86-4 Makefile Makefile.man distinfo pkg-plist pkg-plist.alpha pkg-plist.pc98 ports/x11/XFree86-4/files patch-c patch-f patch-i810 patch-j patch-k patch-mouse patch-r128 patch-r128dri patch-r128xmesa patch-startx patch-tga patch-xdm ... Message-ID: <3C4DC864.6B1E87B9@FreeBSD.org> References: <200201221540.g0MFewj05263@green.bikeshed.org>
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"Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:41:51AM -0500, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > Yay, we love bogus multiple sets of 2 versions of a port differing only in > > > version string! We especially love such fun regressions as yet another > > > FreeBSD release which ships with an XFree86 server that crashes rendering > > > fonts, and which resets itself if you switch consoles with an i810 card! > > > Woohoo! > > > > Yet another version of FreeBSD that is shipped with stable, working, > > and useful third party packages. The only alternative to this backout > > is to delay the release and prolong the code-freeze until at least > > mid-February while all of the dependent ports are updated, and all of > > the bugs in this massive piece of software are exposed. > > Install a version of XFree86-4-libraries built against 4.1.0, and then the > whole of 4.2.0. Any older libraries depended upon will still exist, and any > new libraries with the same version numbers will, of course, be > backward-compatible. This is a very simplistic view, IMO. The same version number only means that ABI is the same, it doesn't warrant that there no new bugs were introduced in the library code. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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