xorg package names aren't starting at 7.0

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 1/5/06, David Timms <dtimms at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> What reasoning lies behind the choice of version numbering for the new
> X.Org X11R7.0 packages in rawhide.
>
> FC4 updates-released used: xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
> FC5 test1 development uses: xorg-x11-apps-1.0.0-1
>
> Wont this would confuse many who will be getting R7.0 (now released) ?

Have you looked at the source tarballs for the individual components now?
for example  xf86-input-mouse-X11R7.0-1.0.3.1.tar.bz2
the individual components are getting release numbers which a seperate
from the global release.  In the case of the mouse package that
release is 1.0.3.x

And thats sort of the point of going modular. It doesn't really matter
which pieces ship officially as part of X11R7, each modular piece has
its own update cycle and if required an update for specific pieces
like individual driver tarballs can be updated individually regardless
of what version of the tarball is in X11R7.whatever.  If FC ships some
components that match the versions in X11R7 and some versions which
are updates beyond whats in X11R7. Why is it appropriate to brand all
these things as X11R7?  All you do is complicate the evr calculation
that rpm has to do when calculating updates.

This isnt very different than how the pieces of the gnome desktop are
packages. Gnome might be moving towards a global "2.14" release but
individual pieces have their own versioning, the atk package for
example.


-jef