Dan Nicholson wrote: > During the early Xorg-7 modular days, we hit a nasty bug where > applications were crashing after updating a few of the modular > packages. > > http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/1877 > > It was determined that we should just stick with the package versions > announced with the Xorg release and only backport security fixes. > Having been following the Xorg development a lot more closely for a > while and built the modular packages many times, I'd like to change > this policy. > > What caused that bug was updating packages that had undergone major > changes scheduled for the next Xorg release. In that case it was > compositeproto-0.3, fixesproto-4.0 and libXcomposite-0.3. We'd hit the > same issue right now if we tried to update to inputproto-1.4 and > libXi-1.1.0. > > I'm proposing that we should update packages that have patchlevel > releases (third number) in the same cycle. We're missing out on some > key bug fixes and forced to carry around patches for a bunch of > packages with the current policy.
+1, especially since there were no bug reports against LFS LiveCD 6.2-4, where essentially this has been done. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
