[arch-dev-public] X.org 7.3 about to hit Testing

[Paul Mattal]

Alexander Baldeck wrote:
> Damir Perisa wrote:
>> Saturday 22 September 2007, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>>  | Move it. That's why we have [testing]. Lets take the chance to
>>  | find some more bugs.
>>
>> yea, exactly! warn the users and then put it in [testing]. 
>>
>> - D
>>
> 
> Draft of the news item, comments please! :)
> 
> 
> ===============================================================
> 
> <h2>Xorg 7.3 hits testing</h2>
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> the new X.org will be pushed to testing in the next few hours. 
> xorg-server 1.4 comes with many core changes such as:
> 
> * stable releases of xf86-video-intel
> * randr 1.2
> * xorg.conf becomes <b>partially</b> obsolete
> * an updated ABI for drivers
> 
> The latter does break Nvidia's legacy drivers. So everyone using 
                                               , so

Since we're editing, the above should be comma lower-case. I think
starting the sentence with so may be technically correct in some
circumstances, but should still be avoided.

> nvidia-96xx or nvidia-71xx should either wait until Nvidia fixes the 
> issue or use xf86-video-nv in the meantime.
> 
> As usual feel free to file bugs for all issues you can find.

Great job, thanks for remembering to draft!

- P