On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:52:15PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > David Nusinow wrote: > >> The rough plan is to provide an alternative set of updated kernel packages > >> and potentially also xservers (depending on how modular the new X.org > >> modulization really is) nine months after Etch release. ian.org > >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > This may be problematic. The server's ABI version will change, requiring > > the old drivers to be rebuilt or new drivers. This may or may not happen > > every upstream X.org release, I can't really say without more experience, > > but the ABI did break between 7.0 and 7.1. > > > > The server should work fine without too many additional backports of the > > libs or protocol headers though. The 7.1 server only requires an update of > > one lib and two protocol headers from 7.0. I'd imagine that this will be > > more or less the average. > > I hope you or someone else from the XSF joins this effort in 2007, but let's > rest it until Etch is released.
I don't run stable myself right now, but if no one else from the XSF is interested I'd be happy to devote some time to helping out in the future. Ping debian-x once Etch is out and we'll figure it out. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
