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Date:      Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:47:09 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: xorg-server 1.7.7
Message-ID:  <4CE0F38D.6070508@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20101114190640.GA13056@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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on 14/11/2010 21:06 Peter Jeremy said the following:
> On 2010-Nov-13 21:35:29 +0200, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote:
>> I think that you refer to upgrades of the "Xorg bundle" as a whole.
>> Not sure if we've had any problems like that when upgrading between minor
>> versions of a single module, even such as xorg server.
> 
> Looking back through my gripe list, apart from the general X11 build
> system regressions going from 6.9 to 7.0 (reducing portability and
> roughly doubling the overall build time), _all_ of the regressions,
> POLA violations and general breakage I have run into have been related
> to the X server (though some may be DRI/DRM and input/output device).
> 

Actually, now even I can recall my confusion with (1) change of default
background in root window from the pattern to black; (2) adding dependency on
hald and all that came along by default.
But I believe that things like that do not happen between minor releases.

Anyway, more incentive for all to do testing in advance.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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