Re: pkg/50172: modular-xorg needs some glamor

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/50172; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: David Shao <davshao%gmail.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: pkg/50172: modular-xorg needs some glamor
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 19:19:54 +0200

 On Tue,  8 Sep 2015 05:10:04 +0000 (UTC)
 David Shao <davshao%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
 
 >  I would advise against this.  My understanding is that the freeze for
 >  the next version of pkgsrc is about to begin within days.  MesaLib
 >  10.6.x seems to have essentially been a bugfix branch known to be
 >  compatible with 10.5.x systems.  Therefore I would anticipate that
 >  there will be further bugfix updates to 10.6.x through much of the
 >  lifetime of the next pkgsrc branch, perfect for stability, while there
 >  would be no further updates to 10.5.x.  Also some new features of Mesa
 >  11 require an update to libLLVM 3.7.  And Mesa 11 would be a less
 >  stable development branch.
 
 This makes sense. Let's update to 10.6.x.