On Sam, 2003-02-08 at 23:57, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 03:33:07PM +0100, Michel D?nzer scrawled: > > On Sam, 2003-02-08 at 01:17, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:04:18AM +0100, Michel D?nzer scrawled: > > > > Duh, gcc obviously needs _its own_ version in the package name. I was > > > > talking about xserver3.2-xfree86 (built with gcc 3.2), xlibs2.3.1 (built > > > > against glibc 2.3.1), ... because those version numbers are about as > > > > relevant to those packages as the Mesa version number is to xlibmesa. > > > > > > I agree entirely with Branden: if the changes are irrelevant, why does > > > upstream keep bumping the *major* revision number? > > > > I suspect Marcelo could explain this far better than I can, but I'm not > > sure he's reading this, so I'll try once again: > > > > The Mesa version number reflects the progress of the Mesa project. The > > purpose of the Mesa project (and the xlibmesa packages) is to provide an > > implementation of the OpenGL specification. Neither the API nor the ABI > > of the libGL provided by Mesa has changed since Mesa version 3.x at > > least. > > Right, however giving xlibmesa a version number that only relates to > XFree86, and not to Mesa at all, would be pretty misleading, because > they'd see xlibmesa-gl, with a version of 4.2.1-5, and say "Oh, that > must be Mesa version 4!". > > Bzzt.
A broken package name to compensate for broken assumptions? Right. Give it the Mesa version then, or document it in the description, or wherever. > > PS: Will you please fix the xlibmesa4-drm-src package at least? As I've > > told you before, the name is broken because the DRM has nothing to do > > with Mesa, and DRI stands for Direct Rendering _Infrastructure_. > > How did DRI ever come into this? I'll rename it to something less > broken, I agree, but I don't see how the acronym for DRI comes into > this. Read your description, and note my emphasis? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
