On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 07:31:39PM +0200, Torbjörn Andersson wrote: > I've now installed the XFree86 4.0.1-0phase1v18 packages. The upgrade from Darn. phase1v19 has been out for a few days. > * Where should "this program works differently with XFree86 4.0.1 than with > XFree86 3.3.6"-errors be reported? Here, to the XFree86 project, or to > the maintainer of that program? (An example - one of a few - of this > would be, "if I use xmessage the text box will appear to be empty until > I've resized the window to be at least one pixel taller." In this case, > of course, the maintainer of the program would be someone in the XFree86 > project, but that's not always the case.) If you could report these upstream, or hold them as Debian bugs until 4.0.1-1, I'd appreciate it. I'm trying to solve the big problems first. > * If I have to report an error outside of this list it would be useful to > know exactly which version of XFree86 I'm using. Some things lead me to > believe that it's not 4.0.1 but a later CVS snapshot. Is that right? The package changelog will inidicate what version was used. For either v18 or v19 I stablized on 4.0.1c. Another way to find out is to read the upstream changelog. > * The xserver-svga package used to provide xserver, but xserver-xfree86 > doesn't. Since there is only one X server package now I can see how this > could be intentional. The only package where this caused a problem for me > was task-x-window-system-core, and I thought I saw a new version of that > one while checking the Debian FTP earlier today, so this may already have > been fixed. (Of course, the Internet connection chooses this particular > moment to fail mysteriously, so I can't check.) Sorry, that was a bug. Fixed. > * My xterm is now white text on a black background. Is that intentional, or > is it related to the app-defaults thread? I noticed that it doesn't seem > to pay any attention to my /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. That is intentional. The screen colors are defined in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color. > * I know it's Debian policy that *-dev packages contain static versions of > their libraries, but in the case of xlib6g-dev I do wish it was still > possible to not install them since they are bloody huge. Policy doesn't really allow me an alternative. However, I am presently shipping things unstripped. For official release, I'll turn stripping back on and this will make some of the packages much smaller. I expect xlib6g-dev to be the main beneficiary of this. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Never attribute to malice that which can branden@debian.org | be adequately explained by stupidity. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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