On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 10:37:13AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Sven LUTHER wrote: > > That is not comparable, X4.2 is still not in unstable because Branden > > did work on 4.1 until months after 4.2 was released. This is one of the > > things that gives us a reputation of releasing with obsolet versions of > > stuff, and a think we have no reason to be prud of. > > Actually I think it is a thing we do have to be proud of. Branden > spend a shitload of time making sure we had a good working X in woody > that works on all architectures, and he succeeded. We can probably > safely say we have the only X that runs properly on eleven > architectures. To me that is a lot more important than having a new > upstream version of X in a release that might be a bit faster on a > small subset of the architectures Debian runs on or has a few new > features that 0.1% of our users use.
Well, but you screw all users with newer cards that need 4.2 to run. But again, i said i understood branden reasoning, just that this is _not_ and argument for the current gnome2 mess. BTW, the same will happen with sarge, we will most probably ship X 4.2 with sarge, even while 4.3 will most probably be released in a few month and some of the 4.3 changes are already backported to Branden's beta 4.2 packages. And also, it seems gnome2 does _not_ run well with 4.1, i had to install the beta package for xlibs 4.2 for it to work. Friendly, Sven Luther
