Hi, Andres Cimmarusti <acimmarusti@gmail.com> (30/03/2012): > I'm just wondering why is mesa 8.0 being held in experimental and it's > not allowed to migrate to unstable and testing. We are still months > away from feature freeze in wheezy and mesa 8.0 brings quite a few > feature, mainly opengl 3.0 capabilities for some intel gpus. uploading to sid means disabling wayland support, so it's not straightforward (i.e. not a dch -i/build/upload away). > If the worry is stability, there have been already two point releases > fixing bugs (now at version 8.0.2). Furthermore allowing it to migrate > to wheezy, there will be a significant increase in testing that should > polish it up and further benefit upstream mesa. The issue is maintainer time. (We know about the point releases, see upstream-experimental, which has >> 8.0.1) Even though Ubuntu folks are doing their best to give a hand, I'm basically the only one working on the Debian side, and sometimes life just sucks and needs me elsewhere. Mraw, KiBi.
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