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Subject: Re: Current tinderbox regression (libXi)
From: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer () who-t ! net>
Date: 2009-01-30 7:11:12
Message-ID: 20090130071111.GA18819 () dingo ! bne ! redhat ! com
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 01:48:36AM -0200, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade wrote:
> >> I think this is kind of a flaw in
> >> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/VersionNumberScheme
> >> that may happen in other packages if for some reason an
> >> intermediate release must be done. In this case it was done
> >> to ensure people building from tarballs would not have
> >> these kinds of issues.
> >>
> >> The correction would be to either make git libXi require
> >> xext >= 1.0.5, or change back git version of xext to 1.0.99.1.
> >
> > Why didn't you release libXext as 1.1, as the version numbering would have
> > suggested?
>
> I considered it, but I thought it would be unpolite to
> "somehow" officially releasing your work without consulting
> you. And I did it just to match the changes in xextproto,
> so that build from tarballs will happen without problems.
I'm on IRC and I read my email, wouldn't the easiest solution be to just ask?
Cheers,
Peter
> > Adding support for GenericEvents in a patchlevel release doesn't make
> > sense,
> > especially considering the version number was already on 1.0.99.1 and you
> > bumped it back.
>
> I thought there were no tarballs with the prototypes already
> available, but it appears xextproto 7.0.4 already had the
> prototypes, but no implementation in libXext 1.0.4...
>
> > Also, git has this nice feature called branching, so if you desperately
> > needed
> > a 1.0.5 release, why didn't you just branch off 9884a41dd028 and
> > cherry-pick
> > the fixes over?
>
> I hope to not need to do this again soon (release a
> libfoo due to releasing a minor change to fooproto).
> But if needing that, branching for a "quick" release
> would be a better option, so that it would not push
> other changes, like the addition of Xge.c.
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