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On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 05:21:45PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > Package: xbase-clients (main)
> > Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
> > 48199 xauth can't handle IP changes
>
> Brandon, do you need some help to get it fixed?
s/Brandon/Branden/
Yes, it would be nice. If somebody volunteers for this, I have an easy
wishlist bug that could be fixed while they're at it.
> > Package: xdm (main)
> > Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
> > 50740 xdm: xdm conflicts with gdm and refuses to stay installed
>
> Shouldn't be too much work to fix.
I'm not sure this is even really an RC bug. Sounds like a problem with gdm
to me. Other display managers should just stay out of each other's way
until the maintainers of {g,k,w}dm get together with me on debian-x and
hash out a policy. xdm is not a hog. It doesn't do XDMCP listening as it
ships, so it doesn't have a TCP port tied up. It defaults to managing
server :0 on VT 7. Someone recently proposed an abstraction layer for the
display managers. This is a good idea; we just need to get all the
display manager maintainers on board. Not sure if this can be done before
the freeze.
> > Package: xfs (main)
> > Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
> > 50859 xfs runs as root
>
> Would it be possible to run xfs under the permission of nobody?
No, it owns files. Before I can address this we need a clearer policy on
allocation of system users. I am not going to take Herbert Xu's mad
proliferation of system users as a precedent to follow without
corroboration.
> > Package: xlib6g-dev (main)
> > Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
> > 51076 [PATCH] tmp race in imake
>
> Branden, what about the patch in the BTS?
Will be in my next release.
> > Package: xserver-common (main)
> > Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
> > 50209 XF86Config moved and config is broken
>
> Is this really a bug or not?
It seems to be. I've dug through the XF86Setup source (which is what this
bug refers to). It is written in Tcl, which I'm not totally familiar with.
We define the config file as /etc/X11/XF86Config, but somehow, in some
cases, XF86Setup seems to be trying to write the config file to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config -- and unlinking it first, destroying the
symlink we ship. This could still be user error, though. What I really
need is someone more familiar with Tcl to take a closer look at XF86Setup.
> > 51086 if a font server in the fontpath dies, xfree86 will misbehave and might crash
>
> Brandon, are you already working o a fix or do you need som help?
s/Brandon/Branden/
This is an old known bug; I am not working on a fix; the problem is
upstream and might not be trivial to fix. Anyone up to some DIX hacking?
Actually, anyone who's done socket programming in C before should be able
to figure it out.
> > Package: xserver-fbdev (main)
> > Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
> > 43574 xscreensaver, xscreensaver-gl don't appear to work (but do)
>
> Is this bug still there or not?
I don't know.
> > Package: xserver-svga (main)
> > Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
> > 44995 xserver-svga: XF86_SVGA Hungs in Apm_Sync()
> > 45744 xserver-svga: Crashes console system with trio3d
> > 47741 xserver-svga: gmc root icons in wmaker crash the X server
> > 50624 xserver-svga: Hangs when switching to graphic mode
>
> > Package: xserver-xsun (main)
> > Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
> > 45654 Xsun crashing
>
> Brandon, are you already working on fixing those bugs?
s/Brandon/Branden/
No, these are the typical bad hardware support bugs in X servers that
people think they can get fixed by upgrading them to release critical that
we see every time we talk about releasing.
Sorry, folks, I'm not that über. I am not any DDX hacker, and I may never
be. If these aren't fixed upstream, they probably won't be fixed at all.
--
G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." The
Debian GNU/Linux | original Latin seems to have been
branden@ecn.purdue.edu | garbled.
cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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