X.org update broke emulators/wine with old version of X

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:23:43PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2007, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> >> Can someone more familiar with this lend a helping hand, please?  I
> >> assume we do want to support users still running older versions of X,
> >> don't we?
> > Not really. This is why XFree86-4 will go away in a few months.
> > 
> > In that case, it's not about the version of X. The breakage is caused
> > by the PREFIX merge.
> 
> Given that we do not have an update solution which nicely works for
> some non-trivial setups and situations I'm afraid this is going to
> hurt us.

Can you explain to which situations you refer?

> I'll keep testing and reporting bugs and see where this is heading.
> 
> On Sun, 20 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > Per my email to ports the other week, XFree86-4 requires a maintainer
> > interested in keeping support alive.  In particular since we now have
> > no supported build architectures that are using XFree86-4 by default,
> > it will be (and has been) entirely untested with the post-X.org
> > changes and will quickly rot.
> 
> Please note that my report was for a system running X.org 6.9, not 
> XFree86.

OK, well it's also true that X.org 6.9 is unsupported as of yesterday
since it is no longer present in ports.

Kris