On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:52:39AM +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > > I’m unsure if we want to upload random snapshot releases to sid, which > > is why I didn’t do that. Feel free to upload it to experimental, though. > > I wasn't actually suggesting making a random snapshot of the git > source from upstream.
Whatever you personally wish is fine for your own, but may not be for a distribution. In any case this is still only an experimental upload. The chosen version is a Maintainers decision and I didn't see you step up to such responsibility. > The latest stable release from Intel is 2014Q1 > which includes video-intel-2.99.910. Yes, it is a snapshot, but it is > not a random one - it is the same one being used by Intel in the > stable 1.0.5 release of their official Intel Graphics Installer. If it > is good enough for Intel to use in a stable release of their graphics > installer, then imho it ought to be good enough for Debian > Unstable/Testing. 2.99.910 is also the version used in Ubuntu 14.04, > which means it has already received much wider testing than any > possible alternative snapshot. A newer snapshot was deemed to have better hardware support thanks to all fixes piled up in git, both for Haswell and beyond. kind regards, -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
