Re: Re: Spice/QXL maintainer AWOL, can someone update?
Thank you for the detailed information.
I do not know why upstream has not done anything. In mailing list someone from Xorg acknowledged that offscreen surfaces are known problem and suggested the first workaround (https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2012-November/011479.html) and that's all I could see. I think they expect people to use that workaround, but surfaces enable by default is terrible and frustrating everyone, and there is more glitches. Fedora patched it instead (with extra fix, result is better) and Ubuntu is taking Fedora's patch. I thought Fedora had some better connections to libvirt/spice, but they did nothing? Some downstream project from debian is created their own package to add the fix. I am recompiling my own package now also. It's very silly. I can try to contact upstream again when I have more time and see about jessie, but I am just some guy.
---- On Sun, 29 May 2016 22:45:21 -0400 Paul Wise wrote ----
>On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 4:10 AM, Jason Briggs wrote:
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>> Hello, sorry to disturb, a resource said to contact this list: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa
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>Laurent is definitely not MIA, last mail is yesterday:
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>https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802335#20
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>> There is a very impeding bug in the kvm spice/qxl package: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=801081
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>> The maintainer replied once and then disappeared. The issue seriously affect using Debian with KVM and it is dragging on for a long time. Ubuntu and fedora have patched. Can someone apply the patches to Debian Sid and Stretch?
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>Is the patch applied upstream? Usually patches to Debian
>testing/unstable go via upstream. If not, please ensure that it is
>applied upstream. If it is then Laurent could update to the new
>version or someone could propose a backported patch to be applied in
>an NMU. You could prepare the NMU and ask for a sponsor since you have
>an interest in this bug.
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>https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu
>https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers
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>> I also have a question I repeat here, can the patches can make it into Jessie? The workaround is only partial and there is none for existing live CDs without rebuilding the CD. I deal with it for too long on my own and downstream distros as well.
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>The patch would need to be backported to the jessie version of
>xserver-xorg-video-qxl and then the upload proposed to the release
>team for inclusion in the next point release. After the point release,
>new live CDs with the fixed version would be built.
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>https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable
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>--
>bye,
>pabs
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