R7.0: missing xterm and libdrm, and version numbers

Jeremy C. Reed reed at reedmedia.net
Wed Aug 10 09:05:20 PDT 2005


On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Daniel Stone wrote:

>> Maybe we should build a list of vendors that have been widely using the
>> "experimental" xlibs where decreasing the version numbers doesn't make
>> sense.
>>
>> Xrandr-1.0.2 is used by pkgsrc (NetBSD and others).
>>
>> (I don't see problem for Fedora or Debian from a quick look.)
>
> Debian has been using modular Xft, Xrender, and fontconfig for a while.

Shouldn't be a problem, as modular Xorg's libXft is 2.1.7 (Debian is 
2.1.7-1), libXrender is 0.9.0 (Debian is 0.9.0-2), and I don't see 
fontconfig as part of modular Xorg.

> Ubuntu is already using the modular tree bar the server, which will
> hopefully be transitioned by the end of the month.  We get screwed on
> the versioning, I think.  But that's our fault.

  Jeremy C. Reed

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