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Date:      Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:36:54 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andrea Campi <andrea@webcom.it>
Cc:        will@physics.purdue.edu, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: -CURRENT and XFree86 4.0.2 problem
Message-ID:  <200102011836.f11Iasp02625@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010201190221.B8965@webcom.it>
References:  <20010123101200.B542@naver.co.id> <20010131115547.C2268@webcom.it> <200101311336.f0VDaTk81098@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010131152541.F2268@webcom.it> <20010201050902.L479@puck.firepipe.net> <20010201133551.A1256@webcom.it> <200102011744.f11Hibe95917@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010201190221.B8965@webcom.it>

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>>>>> Andrea Campi writes:

 > What I talking about is something like, "hey, I have the new
 > port for 4.0.x ready, it's up at this URL, how about trying it
 > out? I will commit in 2 days". Simple, easy on everybody time,
 > but effective, and it would avoid accidents like this.

And then? I will get reports from people saying "it does not work for
me" and reports from people saying "at least I can use my new video
board!". Do you want to run a poll on every new release?
The solution is simple: keep a backup of your last running version,
try a new one and if it does not work reinstall your backup and make a
report to xfree86 (see /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/BugReport).

 > Your argument is the same as saying, -current is -current, so
 > it can break at any time. True, but we still want to give it a
 > reasonable amount of testing, no?

I think 4.0.2 solved a lot of problems for people using 4.0.1 and it
is not a step backwards. And it was tested by XFree86 developpers -
they make their best to release a good product.

Jean-Marc

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Jean-Marc Zucconi -- PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.org [KeyID: 400B38E9]


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