Re: XFree 4.2.1-5 ATI Rage 128 missing symbols
Quoting Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 06:58:49PM +0100, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> > Quoting Jean-Marc Liotier <jim@jipo.com>:
> > > Now my question : when will a version of XFree equal or
> > > posterior to 4.2.1-11 hit Sid ? Is there somewhere I
> > > can find it even before ?
> >
> > I tried to have a look in incoming.debian.org but XFree was not there.
> > Is it reasonnable to install the binary package from the upstream
> > developpers, or will that severely disturb the Debian setup ?
>
> That binary package sounds like an RPM, and in any case has a
> completely different versioning scheme. Don't install it. File
> a bug instead (if there isn't one there already) asking for the
> fix you need.
I asked Branden Robinson (the Debian package maintainer) and I got a nice and
quick answer from him : he has taken care of the problem and the fix will be
included in either 4.2.1-6 or 4.2.1-7.
That said, good thing you tell me that the versioning schemes vary across
distributions because I was about to alien the RPM or install the upstream
binary package from xfree.org. I guess I'll just have to be patient.
Strange thing about my problem is that I just discovered that I could startx as
root although a normal user won't work. I'm puzzled once again...
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