Trying to make sense of all the X modular packages

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:56:19PM -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> 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?

I believe the way we're doing it now is putting tarballs into the
/tarballs/ directory, and then symlinking, say,
xf86-video-ati-1.0.0.1.tar.gz from
../rc1/xf86-video-ati-X11R7.0RC1-1.0.0.1.tar.gz.  But I could be wrong
on this one.
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