Bug#321434:

["Jason Spiro" <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>]

2008/9/22 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrotw:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 16:24:48 -0400, Jason Spiro wrote:
>
>> severity 321434 grave
>> thanks
>>
>> Raising severity to grave as Herman and Gernot requested.  I verified
>> today that the bug still exists in x11-apps 7.3+3 (the latest version
>> in Debian testing).
>>
> If you guys think it's better to not ship xedit than to ship it with
> this bug, I'll happily upload an x11-apps package with xedit removed.
> If not, then this bug shouldn't be RC.
>
> Cheers,
> Julien
>

IMO you should not ship xedit until this bug is fixed.

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