On 28/04/15 15:28, Vincent Cheng wrote: > 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. Hello, There's also the problem that as soon as a new kernel release is uploaded to Sid, a few nasty bugs which are fixed on 2.99.x are going to appear, at least for Haswell users. For example, monitor hotplug is horribly broken on xxv-intel 2.21 + kernel >= 3.19 [1]. I've been using 2.99.x on a Haswell laptop for 4 months, with kernels 3.16, 3.18, 3.19 and now 4.0, without issues. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=779603
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