AW: Re: Serious issue with release candidate under VMWare (#765490)
Bernd,
I see you taken care of the issue or atleast pushed the correct persons. Thanks alot.
Regards, norbert
---- Bernd Zeimetz schrieb ----
Hi Norbert,
> I noted my concerns on the bug-report, I thought that counts as "talking to the
> package maintainers".
Using "This helps" as Subject for mails to the BTS was not really helpful for
sure, I could image that most people assumed it was spam.
Here are some suggestions:
- write a proper mail to the maintainer mailing list (debian-x@lists.debian.org).
- I don't know how much the usability of Debian is affected when the vmware xorg
driver is being used. The BTS allows to change the severity. You might want to
include a reason if you do so in your mail, also please note that people might
still decide to ignore this issue for the upcoming release. See
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities for details.
- Use virtualbox or some other virtualization system.
> As far as I understand debian policy, such fixed wont ever make it into Jessie
> later (outside of -backports).
You understand it wrong (assuming that the fix is really this single line
change...).
Cheers,
Bernd
>
> 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
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