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Re: XFree86 3.2 is out, should we delay the release of Debian 1.2

Juergen Menden writes:
-> On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Dominik Kubla wrote:
-> > 
-> > I think that these changes are of such magnitude, that a delay to include
-> > XFree86 3.2 into Debian 1.2 might be at least considerable.

If it would invoke a considerable delay, then yes, it should not go
into 1.2.  However, I believe the X maintainer has claimed he could
have it packaged this weekend, and ready to go on Monday.  As far as
"changes of this magnitude", I don't believe that there are
significant enhancements in R6.1, mostly bugfixes, and there are far
too many people out there whose cards are previously unsupported. If
the maintainer can deliver the package by early ext week, then I think
Debian has more to gain by being the first to offer 3.2 in a release
tham we have to risk through library incompatibilities.

-> to avoid some recompilation the xlib package could possible be renamed to
-> xlib60 and the new one will be xlib61. at least on solaris the .so-name of
-> the libs include the version 6.0/6.1 and can coexist very well.

As far as I know, the soname for XFree86 is 6, and the libraries
should be drop-in replacements.

At the very least, we should offer the 3.2 servers.  There are far too
many people waiting on the new servers for us to say, "Ooops, sorry.
We're not going to have a stable release with those til April".

My .02

-Larry

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