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  • From: Florian Franzmann <siflfran AT hawo.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] devel-xorg-modular security fixes
  • Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 11:05:35 +0200

On Fr 2013-05-31 10:33:00 +0200, Treeve Jelbert wrote:
> devel-xorg-modular has now accumulated several security fixes, as well as
> many
> other important changes.
>
>
> It is unlikely that anyone will make the effort to update the old versions
> in
> master.
>
> Can we consider using the the security issue as a good reason to merge
> devel-
> xorg-modular to master, which has been mouldering for long time with
> respect
> to xorg?
In principle I'm in favour of a merge but we still don't have a viable
update path. Just doing a system-update from the old xorg to the new
one _will_ break large parts of people's systems. cleanse is unable to
fix the resulting mess.
>
>
> On my system I have:
> $ gaze version libx11 xorg-server
> Grimoire Section Spell Grimoire Version Installed Version
> -------- ------- ----- ---------------- -----------------
> smgl xorg-lib libx11 1.4.2 1.5.99.902
> smgl xorg-xserver xorg-server 1.8.2 1.14.1
>
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