[meego-packaging] [meego-commits] 12054: Changes to Trunk:Testing/libxcb

[Zhu, Peter J]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anas Nashif [mailto:nashif at linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 10:02 PM
> To: Zhu, Peter J
> Cc: meego-packaging at meego.com; Li, Peng; Miroslav.Safr at tieto.com;
> fathi.boudra at nokia.com
> Subject: Re: [meego-packaging] [meego-commits] 12054: Changes to
> Trunk:Testing/libxcb
> 
> 
> On 17 Jan 2011, at 13:53, Zhu, Peter J wrote:
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Anas Nashif [mailto:nashif at linux.intel.com]
> >> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 9:35 PM
> >> To: Zhu, Peter J
> >> Cc: meego-packaging at meego.com; Li, Peng; Miroslav.Safr at tieto.com;
> >> fathi.boudra at nokia.com
> >> Subject: Re: [meego-packaging] [meego-commits] 12054: Changes to
> >> Trunk:Testing/libxcb
> >>
> >>
> >> On 17 Jan 2011, at 10:30, Zhu, Peter J wrote:
> >>
> >>> It's asking for a new version of so basic package just before one week off
> >> feature freeze. If you look how many packages has build dependency on this,
> >> it's a huge list.
> >>>
> >>
> >> What other deadline would have the submitter had to comply with? Isn't
> that
> >> the who idea of having a feature freeze deadline?
> >>
> > I don't say it's too late. I don't reject this. It's just a fact. It's a basic package,
> right? Just like kernel/Xserver/Mesa/Toolchain, they should be stable as early
> as possible in a release cycle.
> >
> 
> To comfort you, we are getting a new rpm package with lots of changes, much
> more critical than libxcb :)
> 
> 
Not funny. Is this planned ? Is anything big we could get from this upgrade? Is this new rpm stable enough? 

Peter

> Anas
> 
> > Peter
> >
> >>
> >>> So my question is:
> >>> 1.      Does new meegotouch-compositor really have use
> >> xcb_discard_reply()? Could we use another way to do same thing?
> >>> 2,.  If we have to does anybody ever know how many API/ABI changes for
> >> 1.5->1.7? Does all packages using libxcb build successfully against new 1.7?
> >> Does it really work for 1.7?
> >>>
> >