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Re: xlibmesa naming and relationships



On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:17:06AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:04:18AM +0100, Michel D?nzer scrawled:
> > Duh, gcc obviously needs _its own_ version in the package name. I was
> > talking about xserver3.2-xfree86 (built with gcc 3.2), xlibs2.3.1 (built
> > against glibc 2.3.1), ... because those version numbers are about as
> > relevant to those packages as the Mesa version number is to xlibmesa.
> 
> I agree entirely with Branden: if the changes are irrelevant, why does
> upstream keep bumping the *major* revision number?

Er, I did not assert that Mesa had no business bumping their major
version number.

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