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Hello Adam,
I noted my concerns on the bug-report, I thought that counts as "talking to the package maintainers".
As far as I understand debian policy, such fixed wont ever make it into Jessie later (outside of -backports).
Kind Regards,
Norbert Lange
> ---------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---------- > Von: "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> > An: lange@chello.at > Cc: debian-release@lists.debian.org > Datum: 5. März 2015 um 13:36 > Betreff: Re: Serious issue with release candidate under VMWare > > Hi, > > On 2015-03-05 11:30, lange@chello.at wrote: > > There is still an serious issue if you run "Jessie" under VMWare > > Workstation/Player. Most of the time > > the X-Server will hang on shutdown, causing the Machine to hang (not > > even > > possible to switch to a VT) and results in unclean "kills". > > > > The Bug is already in the tracker, together with a patch from upstream. > > xserver-xorg-video-vmware Bug ( > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765490 ) > > > > Please add this fix, otherwise Jessie will likely need some backport > > fixes for > > VMWare during its entire lifetime. > > Have you talked to the package maintainers? Leaving aside any question > of whether the bug would qualify at this stage of the freeze, there's > definitely no way the package can be updated in jessie when the fix > isn't even in unstable. > > Regards, > > Adam |