* Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> (Oh, I had not noticed that NMU)

Neither did I -- oh, the joy.
 
> That way of fixing the problem seems a bit crude.  After all, it may
> be legitimate to get the running screensavers to upgrade when the
> binary gets updated - but is that what SIGHUP does, I can find nothing
> in the manpage or in the README.
> 
> It could be that a correct fix would be to save the current state of
> the screensaver before handling the signal, and getting back to that
> state afterwards - however that may be more difficult to do safely,
> without any time-window kept unlocked.

Oh yes.

> I'll let you decide, whether to forward this upstream or not.

jwz reads this, I guess.
But I personally think: Rather NOT kill xscreensaver and thus unlock
the screen.

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