approval_X11R6.8.x requested: [Bug 1843] Link stage oflibOSMesa.so.4.0 fails every couple of months with "too manysymbols require `small' PIC references" : [Attachment 1301]Patch for 2004-11-12-trunk

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 12:18:46AM -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 11:05 +0100, Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Please don't forget that the patches should be in Xorg "trunk" before
> > requesting approval for the X11R6.8.x-branch...
> 
> This contradicts point 5 in the Guidelines of the release plan
> (http://wiki.freedesktop.org/XOrg/X11R682ReleasePlan). It says:
> 
> When fixing a bug in the stable branch, the bug must be fixed in head as
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> well; it doesn't need to be the exact same patch of course (and indeed,
> that may not be possible), but we should work to make sure that there
> will be no regressions from the next major release to the latest point
> release.

I assume this was Roland's intent.

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Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
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