xorg-server 1.7.8?

[Donnie Berkholz]

On 00:14 Fri 27 Aug     , Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Basically, 1.8 proved to be quite stable at first, then the successive 
> releases with various DRI2 backports from master/1.9 made it much more 
> crash-prone, especially on Intel chips.
> 
> Since 1.9 was nearing its final release at that time, we just decided 
> for the stable branch to skip 1.8 altogether and jump straight to 1.9. 
> Apart from the new udev stuff, there's nothing really interesting for 
> our users in 1.8, except the patches that were back-ported from 1.9...

Perhaps this could serve as a lesson about backporting features rather 
than bugfixes to "stable" release series...

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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