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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.

That's not really done in practice, though, and the SRU policy doesn't
strictly require it. It is not so important from where the patch comes
(upstream release, patch, etc.), but whether all of the individual
changes contained in a point release, and thus this point release as a
whole, are appropriate for SRUing.  We quite commonly do microversion
updates of GNOME components, libraries, etc.

The trouble with X drivers is always that they are very prone to
regressions, and that we can't possibly do an exhaustive regression
testing (as we can do with some isolated GUI component).

With -geode this might be a lot easier since it only supports a very
limited set of platforms (unlike e. g. the intel driver). So if we have
someone (Martin-Eric?) who can test the new release in a lucid
environment on the affected hardware, I'm okay with a microrelease
update. I'm still interested in seeing a changelog from 2.11.8 to
2.11.9.

Thanks!

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