severity 276545 wishlist retitle 276545 xfree86-common: badly-behaved X clients fill $HOME/.xsession-errors with crap, and this is your package's fault tag 276545 + wontfix thanks On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:13:48PM -0400, Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > Package: xfree86-common > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > Since the last upgrade in sarge/testing, the $ERRFILE, nominally > $HOME/.xsession-errors, grows without bound, since it is no longer > being truncated. > > I believe that this change is a mistake, however, controlling this > behavior via a setting in the "/etc/X11/Xsession.options" file is > certainly accceptable to me. I'm not going to fix this for the reasons I outlined in a discussion[1] with Chris Waters back in July. Quoting: For the time being, I do not agree. Justification #1: Xsession is a conffile and anybody who's annoyed by this can apply your patch or a similar one themselves. Justification #2: I think programs and libraries -- especially GTK+ and Qt and their dependent hordes -- need to be broken of the philosophy that .xsession-errors is just another name for /dev/null. Anything that spews gouts of garbage to the file needs a bug filed against it, and I strongly encourage you to do so. I didn't get the memo that said .xsession-errors is supposed to be useless, and I resent the Desktop Movement for trying to make it thus. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/07/msg00068.html -- G. Branden Robinson | Men use thought only to justify Debian GNU/Linux | their wrong doings, and speech only branden@debian.org | to conceal their thoughts. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Voltaire
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