Trying to make sense of all the X modular packages

[Donnie Berkholz]

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Daniel Stone wrote:
| This is AIUI, but I'm pretty sure it's correct.
|
| Tarballs with changes will get new versions rolled by their maintainers
| if the maintainer wants.
|
| The maintainers can then nominate given tarballs for the next release.
| As most of the modules we have now don't have clearly-defined
| maintainers, this will be largely automatic and probably done by the
| release managers.

Last time this came up, all tarballs that were part of an official
release would be "tagged" in their names with X11R7.0 or X11R7.1 or
something. So that would require full repackaging at every release.

Has that changed, or is there some way around it?

Thanks,
Donnie
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