Re: X is now broken, unbreak?
Marc Wilson wrote:
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:48:15PM -0700, Ralph Jennings wrote:
So, why didn't YOU know about it before you upgraded? Gods know Branden's
been villified enough about it in the last couple of days.
I have seen nothing but reasonable criticism of the X packages in
question. How is this villification?
It's a simple bug. Easy to fix. Kills only certain X setups, and
certainly doesn't stop you from launching X if you need to. Doesn't damage
the box, doesn't make the box unusable, doesn't cause loss of data, doesn't
It effectively _does_ make the box unusable. To say otherwise implies
that X isn't an important package.
All of those things make it a "Priority: Normal" bug at worst, and an
annoyance at best.
I *strongly* disagree with this. It is certainly a RC bug.
Yes, the fix is simple, as it is for most RC-bugs: replace the broken
file with a fixed one. That doesn't change the fact that it's RC.
-Dave
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