[PATCH RESEND xserver 1/3] Xserver-spec: add release information

[Peter Hutterer]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 09:18:54PM -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 09:25 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> 
> > The majorversion of 7 is pretty meaningless and the minor is partially
> > meaningless since we have releases that don't end up in a katamari. So
> > if in
> > doubt, I'd just go with the module name + release version and add the
> > release date for those that don't know by heart when version x.y was
> > released.
> > 
> > 
> 
> The attached html snippet should illustrate what you suggested if I
> understand what you mean.
> 
> I dropped the "Version 11, Releases 7.6" legacy markup.
> 
> I have added "libXi Version 1.5.0" (whatever comes from configure.ac)
> 
> I have added pubdate using the date "+%B %Y" format e.g. "October 2011"
> to reflect the time at which the code was versioned and released as
> tarballs.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 

> X Input Device Extension Library
> 
> Mark Patrick
> 
>    Ardent Computer
> 
> George Sachs
> 
>    Hewlett-Packard
> 
>    libXi Vesion 1.5.0

this should probably be "Version" to avoid confusion ;)

otherwise, yes, that's what I meant.  if you want to get really fancy you
could add the input protocol this library was built against but that's
probably excessive.

Cheers,
  Peter

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