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Re: Re: Request For Permission To Upload Xorg 7.1 To Unstable



Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 20:59 +0000, David Nusinow wrote:
> > 
> >    This release of the X server features an internal ABI bump. As such,
> > we've had to rebuild all of the X video drivers. This task is now complete
> > and all of them are either in experimental or incoming.
> 
> Do the package dependencies reflect the fact that the new
> xserver-xorg-core will break old drivers yet? One idea would be to
> change the name of the virtual package xserver-xorg-video to
> xserver-xorg-video-1.0 (reflecting the current video driver ABI version
> 1.0) and make xserver-xorg-core 1.1 Conflicts: xserver-xorg-video.

The old video ABI was 0.8.  The new one is 1.0.

Drew



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