I had a problem with X that I posted earlier this week to this list. I didn't receive any replies, and I had a feeling that the only answer was going to be upgrading xserver-xfree86 from the version I was running under stable. I did an apt-get update and apt-get --dry-run install xserver-xfree86. From the output, it looked like this would break a few things, which I didn't want. (I recently went from testing to stable in order to be able to run KDE.)
So I went to xfree86.org and downloaded the latest source. I compiled and installed. This fixed my X problem, and didn't break anything under stable. Now the question is: If I could do this, then why haven't we backported X (version 4.3) to stable? I suspect the answer is that versions of packages under stable are never changed. My question is: Why is this? If we can increment the package versions in stable without breaking things, why don't we? Why are package versions inviolate? Every few months, we put out revisions to stable anyway. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
