From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 22 12:15:25 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua (alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua [212.9.224.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7734637B427; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:14:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipcard.iptcom.net (ipcard.iptcom.net [212.9.224.5]) by alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA31116; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:14:53 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from vega.vega.com (h131.234.dialup.iptcom.net [212.9.234.131]) by ipcard.iptcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA00407; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:14:50 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vega.vega.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0MKEeI22003; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:14:40 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3C4DC864.6B1E87B9@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:15:32 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,uk,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Murray Stokely , Will Andrews , 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 ... References: <200201221540.g0MFewj05263@green.bikeshed.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > Murray Stokely 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