Subject: re: CVS commit: xsrc
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: source-changes
Date: 01/30/2005 05:39:29
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:43:58PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
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> > Or xsrc in -current only supports recent -current?
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> I believe we have an unfortunate lack of policy in this area.
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> xsrc in -current is supposed to support old releases, and has
> for a long time. tsutsui's original suggestion seems valid.
I thought we started branching xsrc. The cvs log on xsrc/Makefile seems to
agree. As such, I don't think -current xsrc should be required to support
previous releases anymore.
it was my understanding the branching was done on a per-release
basis. we still re-branched for each (point) release.. the real
reason i think that xsrc-current should continue to support old
releases is that the upstream wants to, and we don't want to
diverge from them any more than necessary.
it's also been a feature IMO that one could update to a newer
(netbsd) X11 on older releases...
.mrg.