On 24-02-13 07:43, Graham Inggs wrote: > Recent changes (19 February) > > Hi, I just wanted to clear up a few things regarding the recent changes > I committed. Good. I probably would have asked about 2 specifically. 1. FTBFS on Ubuntu Raring: > I'd like to rename (sorry) the patch and come up with a better > description once I fully understand what changed in Raring. Good. > I think the following page holds the answer: > http://wiki.debian.org/ToolChain/DSOLinking I already had a look at that page when I was creating the symbols. Indeed a lot of good info there. > 2. Build Motif with JPG and PNG support: > After being able to build motif on Raring, I noticed there were > additional symbols. I found that my test machine had libjpeg8-dev and > libpng12-dev installed and this caused motif to build with additional > support for these image types. I believe we should build motif with JPG > and PNG support, and found that motif is built this way in Red Hat [2]. Do you know what this additional support means? In principle I don't object, but I like to understand. > I have not made any changes yet to the symbols files. Please do. > 3. Fix buffer overrun in lib/Xm/FontS.c: > I was looking at the upstream git [1] and found the only change since > the 2.3.4 release was this buffer overrun fix committed on 31 October > 2012. I figured we should include it. How did you see with what code they released 2.3.4? I could not (easily) deduce this from upstream GIT repository. > If you agree on the above changes, I will write up a changelog > describing them. Yes, please. Additionally, I was wondering if you/we find it worth while to ask the current maintainer of upstream what he things of co-maintainers? I expect there are still quite some upstream bugs which are worth fixing, although they are not reported against Debian. Paul
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