On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 15:27 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 21:17 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Thirdly, I don't think users can reasonnably expect the drivers packages > > > to depend on the server. > > > > Again, the drivers are useless without the server. If that's not the > > definition of 'Depends', then I don't know what is. Also, X.Org 7.1 > > breaks the video driver ABI, so new drivers won't work with old servers > > and vice versa. > > xserver-xorg-dev installs a file called serverabiver for exactly this > reason, so drivers can version their dependencies. This is one detail I > didn't get around to implementing in the drivers, but that's why > serverabiver is there ...
Nice, one direction down, one left. :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
