oops, forwarding to br. ----- Forwarded message from Ryan Niebur <ryanryan52@gmail.com> ----- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:13:03 -0800 From: Ryan Niebur <ryanryan52@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Bug#471121: (no subject) To: Tim Connors <reportbug@rather.puzzling.org> Hello, On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:48:36PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: > On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Tim Connors wrote: > > > > It still appears for me in sid for both this and xloadimage (bug 325689). > > From the patch supplied for 325689 for xloadimage (but not yet applied), > > I'm wondering if it's a 64 bit issue. Have you tried to reproduce this on > > a 64 bit machine? > not sure about that, as the xloadimage bug report contains this: "Architecture: i386 (i686)" though, the person didn't necessarily report the bug on the same system as they experienced it (which defeats the purpose). I will try on an amd64 system too. > I just verified that the patch in 325689 works for xloadimage, and I'm > sure a similar patch will work for xli, given that root.c are based off > the same code. I won't produce a patch myself just yet, but I'll > happily test. > thanks for investigating this. once I am able to reproduce this, I will try that. I don't want to just apply a patch and claim I fixed a bug without actually seeing the bug myself. > Please send it upstream too, given that upstream seem to be of the > impression that this is only a debian problem. > I don't even see where upstream comments on this bug at all...but yes, of course. All patches should be sent upstream. > -- > TimC > Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree. Thanks, Ryan *plans to fix this sometime this weekend* -- _________________________ Ryan Niebur ryanryan52@gmail.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- _________________________ Ryan Niebur ryanryan52@gmail.com
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