[ubuntu-x] Another ABI change in Xserver 1.10

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 14:04 -0500, Felix Kuehling wrote:
> There is a recent ABI breaking change in Xserver git in the Xserver's
> ScreenRec structure that still seems to be missing in the Xserver 1.10
> snapshot currently in xorg-edgers:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=e65c3f8bcc86845f21ac575e2bfb4b21b67d5ebf
> 
> This prevents my driver built against the latest Xserver headers to run
> on Natty with the xorg-edgers Xserver 1.10.
>
> Are there plans to update the binaries in xorg-edgers to the latest
> Xserver ABI before they go into Natty's main repository?

I've updated the xorg-edgers Xserver; it now includes this commit.
Since it's moderately annoying to do an ABI transition in Natty's main
repository, we'll be trying to take only the final 1.10 ABI when pushing
into Natty.

> 
> Is there a known deadline for an ABI freeze of Xserver 1.10?

Normally it would be RC1, but this ABI break was waved through for RC1.
The release schedule claims 2011-02-1 as the deadline for non-critical
bug-fixes.

I would expect progressively more push-back on further ABI changes
proposed from here on in, but there's not a hard deadline that
definitely won't be delayed.

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