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Re: Debian Xorg server release version confusion



On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:56:14 -0700, Tech Geek wrote:

> As per the Xorg website [1], the latest stable release is 7.6 which
> happened on 20 December 2010 and the next stable release will be 7.7 [2]
> somewhere in 2011 (which is not out yet).
> 
> So my question is how come Debian Squeeze (stable) has Xorg server
> (xserver-xorg-core) 7.7 [3] already if the 7.7 is still under
> development. However, if you see xserver-xorg [4], it says 7.5.
> 
> Can somebody care to explain what is happening here?

(...)

:-)

I think the magic number you are searching is the one provided by "xorg" 
metapackage:

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xorg

Greetings

-- 
Camaleón


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