This bug is used to indicate bugs that must be fixed before X11R6.8.2 can ship. Anyone can add bugs to block this bug; this is a way for developers to ensure that their requests for bugs to be fixed for the bug fix release will not get lost and see serious consideration. The release manager/wranglers can always decide no, and reassign bugs that should not go in the release to subsequent releases. There is a companion documentation bug, and bugs that are marked fixed, but should be release noted should be moved to block that bug rather than closed completely. That way we won't lose release notes.
Please nominate patches via bugzilla flags as described in http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/release-wranglers/2004-October/001090.html and _not_ via the "dependicy" field (="bug 1693 depends on").
Closing since 6.8.2 shipped and there are no outstanding dependencies to track.
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