Bug#367044: xserver-xorg: please re-enable lbx support

[Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>]

Hi,

David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net> [20060516 21:52:29 -0400]:
>
> On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 03:30:24AM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > [snipped]
> > 
> > Digging through Google I happened upon a patch being applied that actually
> > turned off LBX support, but I could not find any reason why this had been
> > done.
> > 
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2005/12/msg00212.html
> > 
> > Any chance of turning it back on?  
> 
> Not likely. Upstream has decided that lbx is to be deprecated for the
> X11R7.1 release[0], which is currently scheduled to be released this Friday.
> The reasons are outlined in this paper:
> http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/lbxpost/index.html
> which essentially states that lbx is a failed technology. As a result of
> both these things I don't see a need to enable lbx currently.
> 
Far enough, I guess thats why all the examples about it pre-date 2003 and its 
nigh next to impossible to find out more about it.

Cheers for the link to the paper, not the most indepth thing but 
enlightening.  Now what I need is a ncurses LDAP client....

/me goes hunting

You can close this 'bug'.

Cheers

Alex

>  - David Nusinow
> 
> [0] http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ChangesForX11R71

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