On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:43:58PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
>>
>>   > Or xsrc in -current only supports recent -current?
>>
>>    I believe we have an unfortunate lack of policy in this area.
>>
>> xsrc in -current is supposed to support old releases, and has
>> for a long time.  tsutsui's original suggestion seems valid.
>
> I thought we started branching xsrc. The cvs log on xsrc/Makefile seems to
> agree. As such, I don't think -current xsrc should be required to support
> previous releases anymore.
>
> As to the origianal point, I don't think we really need to support old
> releases of -current. xsrc is now much more fully integrated with the
> rest of the build system, so if you want to run X with current (and build
> from source), you really should download both together.

 	I would very much prefer us to have xsrc supporting at least
 	the last major release, particularly if we are feeding diffs
 	back to Xfree or similar. It also allows people running the
 	release to play with the latest xsrc, giving it more testing.

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