On Monday 11 October 2004 11:47 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 15:39, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > On Monday 11 October 2004 9:27 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 15:21, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > > > Why isn't anyone getting 6.8.1 in the Portage tree? Seeing as how it
> > > > is a security/bugfix release, I would expect 6.8.0 to remain unstable
> > > > (or even masked) and 6.8.1 to be marked stable.
> > >
> > > Try reading the ChangeLog (grep -i security) before talking.
> >
> > So you are implying that 6.8.0-r1 is the same as 6.8.1 or something else?
> > I see info in the ChangeLog suggesting it might have the security fixes
> > merged, but according to Kito, there are PPC/OSX bugfixes w/ the DRI ATi
> >
> > drivers also:
> > > not sure if 6.8.1 will fix the bugs with the binary ATI drivers on ppc
> > > linux, but it has fixed the ATI bugs on my ppc darwin system FWIW.
> >
> > Are *those* fixes also present? ChangeLog doesn't suggest either way on
> > non-security bugfixes.
>
> kito is confused, and I'm not sure where he/she got that idea. Don't
> believe someone without any proof. There is absolutely nothing new in
> 6.8.1 over 6.8.0 other than the security patch. Go to www.x.org for
> yourself and click on Latest Release -- look at the patch.

so why not giving it a proper release number? 6.8.1?
as it technically equals (+patches) to the upstream 6.8.1 release?

regards,
Christian Parpart.

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