I think being on an RC, as opposed to a final release, is as awkward for us as it is for everyone else. It makes all of our updates harder, because the codebase is unique to us, it's not a release that upstream cares about. So, in this case, I think it's a perfect candidate for -proposed, which is turned off by default and turned on for early warning. We should of course look at the scope and risks. Phil has said this affects only one driver, which is good. Martin's point about Mesa being in the middle of a big complex and critical stack is true too. On balance, careful review, some sample testing, and then -proposed seem reasonable to me.
Phil, I really appreciate that you have persisted on this. I also appreciate that we are anal about scary updates to millions of systems. I have met literally hundreds of people who's grandparents and parents are running Ubuntu and who would be crushed to have it DOS'd by a bad update to X, so I respect and support the SRU process to avoid Another Wiesbaden ;-) Mark
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