On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 01:12 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 01:00:17 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > ati 6.8.191 (6.9-rc1) has been released today. Given the big testing > > that we already had in experimental, this release looks very good to me. > > And it brings support for many new boards, EXA Composite for > > r3xx/r4xx/r5xx, textured video, ... So I am thinking of uploading it to > > sid even if it's only a release candidate. > > I think I'd wait for 6.9, but you're the one with the ati card, so... :) > > > Before doing so, we need to put r128 and mach64 into sid as well. > > Upstream finally released them as 6.8.0 while my experimental snapshots > > were called 1:6.8.1~git... So the easiest plan would be to bump their > > epoch and upload as 2:6.8.0-1. > > Or upload as 6.8.0 to sid (without epoch) and request removal of the old > snapshots from experimental. Anyone who had installed them from > experimental would have to 'upgrade' by hand, but then again it's > experimental.
6.9-rc1 has had tons of bugfixes (many deadlocks for r300 hardware) that make it way more stable than 6.8.0 IMHO. Xav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]