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Bug#858800: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-1 [ITA]



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Dear Branden,

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 06:45:34PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Changes since the last upload:
> 
>   * Merge new upstream release.
>     + "Deleted all SIGIO code.  The code was a kludge to begin with and it no
>       longer worked with current X libraries and Linux kernels, causing xtrs
>       to hang.  It was also reported to cause hangs when xtrs was compiled for
>       Windows using Cygwin.  Thanks to Howard Pepper, Dennis Lovelady, Arumin
>       Nueckel, Christopher Currie, and Joe Peterson for bug reports."
>       (Closes: #511645)

Is it impossible to backport this fix to the version currently in
stretch?

You are very unlikely to get release team approval for this upload as it
stands.  Given what you wrote in #511645, is your intention for xtrs to
drop out of stretch, to be reintroduced in buster?

-- 
Sean Whitton

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