Re: Bug#748753: Upload xxv-intel 2.99.x to sid?
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
<pochu@debian.org> wrote:
> On 28/04/15 12:02, Vincent Cheng wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Now that jessie is out and the freeze is over, would anyone object if
>> I were to upload xserver-xorg-video-intel from experimental to sid
>> now? 3.0 is supposed to be an "imminent release" [1] anyways.
>
> Given that 2.21.x is completely unmaintained, and that the only relevant changes
> from 2.21.15 to 2.99.901 [1] were SNA enabled by default (which upstream
> considers ready and which can be reverted anyway) and XMir integration (which we
> don't care about) I see no reason to withhold this upload any longer. It's not
> like we're going to release Stretch with 2.21.x again, so the sooner we upload
> it, the more testing it will get. FWIW I used it for several months without issues.
>
> This sounds similar to Grub2 being at 2.02~beta2, or when it was at 1.99 for so
> long.
Fully agreed here. I've also given out my rationale for updating to
2.99.x in an earlier mail to #748753 [1].
Upstream clearly doesn't particularly care about sane versioning; I
don't think it's helpful to get hung up on the versioning scheme and
the lack of a formal release here.
Regards,
Vincent
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748753#45
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