Re: Bug#504524: AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit causes java to segfault on amd64
* Riku Voipio [Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:56:27 +0200]:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 01:17:34PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> > Well, ideally, I would not need to use MToolkit, which would make
> > this bug something I couldn't care less about. But since XToolkit is
> > broken wrt ICCCM, I have to.
> or, you could use one of the workarounds mentioned.
> > So this bug is really twofold. I think a segfault on amd64 with
> > MToolkit is not RC (but grave+lenny-ignore), but the fact that
> > XToolkit is broken wrt ICCCM is pretty bad. Whether it's RC, I don't
> > know.
> Well, I'm going to touch the severity then, and leave it to the Release
> team to decide on.
> I am not aware of ICCCM compliance being Release Critical or even
> Release goal issue. I would welcome that, as it would allow us
> to boot most of the useless window managers and bunch of legacy
> X11 applications from out archive...
Do all/more applications show up with a gray window with XToolkit, and/or
segfault with MToolkit, or only jabref is known to suffer from this, for
whatever reason? If the latter, this bug should definitely be downgraded.
Cheers,
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