Dan Nicholson([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:41:05AM -0700:
> On 4/7/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 08:08 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> >
> 
> The problem is this: this newly released tarballs are slated for Xorg
> 7.1.  Read this post by the developer of the changes prompting this
> bug:
> 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-March/013947.html
> 
> The modules he's referring to are the ones biting us.
> 
> The solution is that we need to stick with the packages the developers
> say are for Xorg-7.0 unless there is a security flaw or serious bug
> release made.  Bumping up the major version from fixesproto-3.0.2 to
> fixesproto-4.0 without rebuilding the affected parts was a bad idea. 
> We need to let the Xorg developers decide how all these versions best
> work together.
> 
> I'm willing to be that there will be an xorg-server-1.0.3 or greater
> for Xorg-7.1 and it will have at least that patch in there.
> 
> AFAIK, Xorg-7.0 with the versions specified by the developers has had
> no issues.  Gentoo got bit for the exact same reason we are.
> 

Exactly my thoughts.
Bumping the versions with no particular reason (unless of course a security
reason involved) doesn't sound good to me.
Also Dan i think it's good idea for every module to has its own page and
with the right order.
A single page is getting unreadable and in my humble opinion might be
confusing.
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