Will like to release xf86-video-mga Version 1.7 soon

[Kevin Brace]

Hi Matt,

Thank you for the suggestion.
I am glad I asked the community before incrementing the version number.
Following the xorg development guideline, I just incremented xf86-video-mga's version to 1.6.900.
Based on your reasonable request, I will increment it to 2.0.0 hopefully by early next week.
Version 1.6.900 is a release candidate version prior to 2.0.0.
Anyone interested in the code, please test the code if you have the equipment.

Regards,

Kevin Brace
Brace Computer Laboratory blog
https://bracecomputerlab.com


> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 1:57 PM
> From: "Matt Turner" <mattst88 at gmail.com>
> To: "Kevin Brace" <kevinbrace at gmx.com>
> Cc: xorg-devel <xorg-devel at lists.x.org>
> Subject: Re: Will like to release xf86-video-mga Version 1.7 soon
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 11:30 AM Kevin Brace <kevinbrace at gmx.com> wrote:
> > If there are no objections, I will like to increment the version of xf86-video-mga DDX to Version 1.7 (1.7.0) early next week.
> 
> Since the version numbers don't really have any meaning, would you
> mind just picking xf86-video-mga-2.0.0? I ask because there are some
> 11 year old 1.9.99 and 1.9.100 release tags in the -mga repo that
> confuse packaging software like Repology [1] and Euscan [2]. So if we
> just picked 2.0.0 we'd no longer confuse those into thinking distros
> are shipping old stuff.
> 
> [1] https://repology.org/metapackage/xdrv:mga/versions
> [2] http://euscan.gentooexperimental.org/package/x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga/
>