Current tinderbox regression (libXi)

[Peter Hutterer]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 01:02:50AM -0200, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade wrote:
> Chris Ball wrote:
> > http://tinderbox.x.org/builds/2009-01-29-0034/logs/libXi/#configure
> >
> > configure: error: Package requirements (xproto >= 7.0.13 x11 >= 1.1.99.1
> > xextproto >= 7.0.3 xext >= 1.0.99.1 inputproto >= 1.9.99.6) were not
> > met:
> >
> > Requested 'xext >= 1.0.99.1' but version of Xext is 1.0.5
> 
>   I think this is kind of a flaw in
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/VersionNumberScheme
> that may happen in other packages if for some reason an
> intermediate release must be done. In this case it was done
> to ensure people building from tarballs would not have
> these kinds of issues.
> 
>   The correction would be to either make git libXi require
> xext >= 1.0.5, or change back git version of xext to 1.0.99.1.

Why didn't you release libXext as 1.1, as the version numbering would have
suggested?
Adding support for GenericEvents in a patchlevel release doesn't make sense,
especially considering the version number was already on 1.0.99.1 and you
bumped it back.

Also, git has this nice feature called branching, so if you desperately needed
a 1.0.5 release, why didn't you just branch off 9884a41dd028 and cherry-pick
the fixes over?

Cheers,
  Peter