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Re: ati 6.8.191, r128 and mach64 going into sid?



On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 01:12 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 01:00:17 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > ati 6.8.191 (6.9-rc1) has been released today. Given the big testing
> > that we already had in experimental, this release looks very good to me.
> > And it brings support for many new boards, EXA Composite for
> > r3xx/r4xx/r5xx, textured video, ... So I am thinking of uploading it to
> > sid even if it's only a release candidate.
> 
> I think I'd wait for 6.9, but you're the one with the ati card, so... :)
> 
> > Before doing so, we need to put r128 and mach64 into sid as well.
> > Upstream finally released them as 6.8.0 while my experimental snapshots
> > were called 1:6.8.1~git... So the easiest plan would be to bump their
> > epoch and upload as 2:6.8.0-1.
> 
> Or upload as 6.8.0 to sid (without epoch) and request removal of the old
> snapshots from experimental.  Anyone who had installed them from
> experimental would have to 'upgrade' by hand, but then again it's
> experimental.

6.9-rc1 has had tons of bugfixes (many deadlocks for r300 hardware) that
make it way more stable than 6.8.0 IMHO.

	Xav



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