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[Bryce Harrington <625280@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately, as you may recall from prior -geode update attempts,
Ubuntu's SRU policy does not permit doing micro-version updates of
packages, due to concern for regression risk.  The SRU team wants each
discrete change broken out separately, to be reviewed, tested, and
tracked in Ubuntu.  Personally I wish we could roll out point releases
of X drivers, since there's a lot of drivers with fixes I'd like to be
able to easily roll out.

However there are some options you can take:

1.  We provide the x-updates PPA
(https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates)
specifically as a semi-official solution to this need.  You are a member
of the ubuntu-x-swat team and should be able to upload to that PPA
directly; I'd strongly encourage you to do so, and encourage any geode
users or clients to install this ppa.  This ppa will only contain stable
releases of drivers, so it should be relatively low risk, and if there
did happen to be any regression it leaves the user with the option to
revert back to the stock distro versions.

2.  ubuntu-backports is the most official way to request backports of
new versions of packages.

3.  There has been a new policy established for permitting exceptions to
the SRU policy, for allowing specific packages to receive micro updates
in stable releases.  The requirement for this is that upstream includes
a regression testsuite in the package, and that it is enabled to run in
the package's build.  Then, an exception must be requested and granted
by the Technical Board.  For more info if you want to pursue this option
please see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/MicroReleaseExceptions or
talk with Colin Watson if you have questions.


** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-geode (Ubuntu Hardy)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-geode (Ubuntu Jaunty)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-geode (Ubuntu Karmic)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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SRU: xserver-xorg-video-geode 2.11.9-1 to Lucid and older supported releases
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