On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 17:41 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:24:44PM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > > Kris Kennaway p??e v st 06. 06. 2007 v 16:04 -0400: > > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 04:25:03PM +0000, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > > > > pav 2007-06-06 16:25:03 UTC > > > > > > > > FreeBSD ports repository > > > > > > > > Modified files: > > > > x11/libX11 Makefile distinfo manpages pkg-plist > > > > Removed files: > > > > x11/libX11/files patch-src_ImUtil.c > > > > Log: > > > > - Update to 1.1.2 > > > > - Don't remove lib/X11, it's in mtree > > > > > > BTW, we had decided not to do minor updates to the X.org ports without > > > a good reason. The disruption caused by frequent tiny updates is > > > tremendous. > > > > Why not? There are no consequences in updating to dot-dot releases here. > > I was told by flz and anholt that I'm free to help out keeping X ports > > up to date. > > The main consequences are: > > * Forcing the package clusters to frequently rebuild all of X, slowing > down all package builds and the rate at which we can do other testing > on pointyhat. > > * The inevitable problems with commits to "deep" ports like this one > which will take out most of the ports tree when they fail to build, > leading to yet more delays in publication of usable package sets. > > What was decided was to only update in batches when x.org makes a new > "kamikaze" release (or whatever they are calling it ;), unless there > is a really good reason to update a port otherwise.
That's an unfortunate policy, given that generally X developers can only be bothered to make releases when there's an important fix to push out(*). In this libX11 case, this point release included stability and security fixes. I suggested to Pav that libs updates were a good thing to do, since they're generally bugfixing and such, unlike drivers and the server (and the protos they depend on) where more context is sometimes needed. * The exception to this in the past has been at katamari time, when we were rolling up any modules with trivial changes that developers hadn't been bothered to release already. I think I've successfully killed that part of the katamari process. -- Eric Anholt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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