Bug#579185: x11-xserver-utils: weird xkeystone executable
Package: x11-xserver-utils
Version: 7.5+1
Severity: normal
The executable /usr/bin/xkeystone has the following properties:
- It refuses to execute at all without nickle installed, and without
cairo-5c installed it immediately dies. Both of these are in the
Suggests list for x11-xserver-utils, but not Recommends or
Depends.
- Running it with both of those packages installed spits out an
apparently-infinite stream of cruft to the terminal along the
lines of
[...]
color = {red = 0, green = 0, blue = 0, alpha = 1}}, &{nichrome =
<recursive>, container = <recursive>, configure = void func(&widget_t
widget, rect_t geometry);, natural = void func(cairo_t cr, &label_t
widget);, geometry = {x = 0, y = 56, width = 400, height = 14},
extents = {x = <uninit>, y = <uninit>, width = <uninit>, height =
<uninit>}, outline = void func(cairo_t cr, &label_t widget);, draw =
void func(cairo_t cr, &label_t widget);, button = <uninit>, motion =
<uninit>, key = <uninit>, label = "", font = "sans-9", color = {red =
0, green = 0, blue = 0, alpha = 1}}, <recursive>, &{nichrome =
<recursive>, container = &{resize = void func(&box_t box, &contained_t
contained);, nichrome = <uninit>, container = <recursive>, configure =
<uninit>, natural = <uninit>, dir = horizontal = <>, items = ([4])
[...]
and opens a blank white window titled "Keystone Correction" that
does not obviously respond to any keyboard or mouse input.
- No xkeystone(1) man page is installed.
This doesn't seem like an ideal situation, but it's hard to tell what
the correct situation would be without more information. Certainly
there should at least be a stub man page for xkeystone if it's
installed in /usr/bin, no?
---> Drake Wilson
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages x11-xserver-utils depends on:
ii cpp 4:4.4.3-1 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii libc6 2.10.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.5-2 X11 authorisation library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 2:1.1.1-3 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxi6 2:1.3-4 X11 Input extension library
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxmuu1 2:1.0.5-1 X11 miscellaneous micro-utility li
ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-3 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.5-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.0-2 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii x11-common 1:7.5+5 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
x11-xserver-utils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages x11-xserver-utils suggests:
pn cairo-5c <none> (no description available)
pn nickle <none> (no description available)
ii xorg-docs-core 1:1.5-1 Core documentation for the X.org X
-- no debconf information
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