re: CVS commit: xsrc

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

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   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.


it was my understanding the branching was done on a per-release
basis.  we still re-branched for each (point) release..  the real
reason i think that xsrc-current should continue to support old
releases is that the upstream wants to, and we don't want to
diverge from them any more than necessary.


it's also been a feature IMO that one could update to a newer
(netbsd) X11 on older releases...


.mrg.