On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <po...@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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
