Subject: Re: HEADS UP: XFree86 3.3.6 has been EOLed
To: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
From: James Chacon <jmc@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-x11
Date: 01/09/2005 20:15:02
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 03:02:55PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Saturday, January 8, 2005 at 10:01:15 (+0000), Matthias Scheler wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: HEADS UP: XFree86 3.3.6 has been EOLed
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 01:01:16AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > > What about the inevitable future release of 1.6.3 (or even the ongoing
> > > support of 1.6.2_STABLE)?
> >
> > It is not affected because "xsrc" has been branched for NetBSD 1.6.x
> > before the 1.6.2 release.
>
> As I said, there are changes on the HEAD-as-of-yesterday that are HIGHLY
> desirable to have on the netbsd-1-6 branch but which are not yet there.
>
> It would be "A Very Good And Desirable Thing(tm)" to merge the entire
> HEAD-as-of-yesterday to the netbsd-1-6 branch.
>
> Indeed I was _very_ surprised that the xsrc module was not re-branched
> entirely for the 1.6.2 release (or that the entire HEAD was not merged
> to the branch, whichever).
It was branched for 1.6.2. Thats the entire reason it's actually on a branch
today. 1.6.2 was the first release we started doing this.
James