Release versioning

[Donnie Berkholz]

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Kevin E Martin wrote:
| On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:04:29PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
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|>Kevin E Martin wrote:
|>| Packages in official X.Org releases need to be easily identified with
|>| the release in which they were included.
|>
|>Why is this? I think it's the job of the "release platform" as a whole
|>to specify which package versions it contains, and not the job of each
|>package within that release.
|
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| The distribution/vendor can choose exactly what versions they want to
| ship in their distro/product.  However, the X.Org Foundation makes
| releases as well, and those are the only ones that will use this
| versioning scheme.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my question. Let me provide an example.

In my view, X.Org should say "We're releasing X11R7. It contains these
packages:
	libXrender 0.9.3
	libXcursor 0.8.2
	xkbcomp 1.0.0
	etc..."

The packages would just have what you called the "package development"
version and not the X release version. The latter would be sufficiently
specified by the release announcement.

Thanks,
Donnie
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