[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.10.0

[Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Matt Turner wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
> <curious at bwv190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl> wrote:
>> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/26/11 01:20 AM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>     xfree86: Drop linux libc5 support from the SIGIO code
>>>>
>>>> hmm, could this be elaborated?
>>>> affects older slackware boxes, etc.
>>>
>>> Those summaries all come from git, so to get more details, simply
>>> look at the commit in git:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=47c91dca8d8eecb429123e8370302831bcd57938
>>
>> thanx.
>> personally i do not think this code breaks anything for normal users,
>> it does not introduce bloat - it's ifdef,
>>
>> so why remove it? even if 'defunct', it's at least in correct
>> place.
>
> What could possibly be correct about running libc5 in 2011?
>
> If you want to run libc5 or Linux 1.2, fine, but an equivalently
> ancient version of xfree86 should go along with it.

it is very strange policy. i can understand investiment in bugfixes
can be dropped, but removal of code which does not do any harm ,
just to FORCE 'libc incorrect' people to use old Xfree or upgrade
is IMHO not right.

concerning such code - perhaps adding another #ifdef,
depending on i.e. "ENABLE_ANCIENT_AND_UNTESTED" variable around such code
could be some compromise, instead of just removal.

p.s. FIY libc5 is used not only with linux.

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