[Ccing debian-x. Volunteers wanted!] On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 08:27:49PM -0400, Christopher Curtis wrote: > >Yes, it's wishlist. The strength of your desire to see a change made > >has no bearing on a bug's severity. > > 8-(
Well, think about it. Such things are highly subjective. You can read about the meanings of Debian bug severities at: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer The definitions are not perfectly objective, but they are a little better than letting the submitter's annoyance level dictate the severity. > That much makes sense to me. I would expect to have to download *some* > X11 library stuff for xauth, but what I downloaded seemed excessive. [...] > I don't mean to ask much, and I hope I'm not. > > Mark me wishlist if you must; I petition for "normal" ;-) The bug report is a feature request; you're requesting a new package. Therefore "wishlist" is the proper severity. What you, and other people who have complained that they "just want xauth and nothing else" really want is a simple tool for manipulating .Xauthority files. Presumably this would be a clone of the existing xauth without the "generate" functionality (see xauth(1x)). Such a version of xauth would not, I think, need to link against the X libraries at all; a few simple utility functions from the X libraries could be duplicated in its source code, but nothing as complex as XOpenDisplay() which is used only by the "generate" function. Such a utility would be packaged separately, or included in the xutils package. Which of these courses of action would be taken would likely depend on how XFree86 felt about including such a tool in a future upstream release. This tool -- perhaps it could be called "minixauth" or "uxauth" ("u" for the Greek "mu" meaning "micro" in SI prefix nomenclature) -- would need to be licensed under MIT/X11 terms to be acceptable to XFree86. -- G. Branden Robinson | Any man who does not realize that Debian GNU/Linux | he is half an animal is only half a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | man. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Thornton Wilder
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