Branden Robinson writes: > severity 276545 wishlist > retitle 276545 xfree86-common: badly-behaved X clients fill > $HOME/.xsession-errors with crap, and this is your package's fault > tag 276545 + wontfix > thanks > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:13:48PM -0400, Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > > Package: xfree86-common > > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 > > Severity: normal > > > > Hi, > > > > Since the last upgrade in sarge/testing, the $ERRFILE, nominally > > $HOME/.xsession-errors, grows without bound, since it is no longer > > being truncated. > > > > I believe that this change is a mistake, however, controlling this > > behavior via a setting in the "/etc/X11/Xsession.options" file is > > certainly accceptable to me. > > I'm not going to fix this for the reasons I outlined in a discussion[1] > with Chris Waters back in July. > > Quoting: > > For the time being, I do not agree. > > Justification #1: Xsession is a conffile and anybody who's annoyed by this > can apply your patch or a similar one themselves. > > Justification #2: I think programs and libraries -- especially GTK+ and Qt > and their dependent hordes -- need to be broken of the philosophy that > .xsession-errors is just another name for /dev/null. Anything that spews > gouts of garbage to the file needs a bug filed against it, and I strongly > encourage you to do so. > > I didn't get the memo that said .xsession-errors is supposed to be useless, > and I resent the Desktop Movement for trying to make it thus. > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/07/msg00068.html > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | Men use thought only to justify > Debian GNU/Linux | their wrong doings, and speech only > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | to conceal their thoughts. > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Voltaire
Branden, I disagree with you here, because the original bug submission has nothing whatsoever to do with "badly-behaved X clients". I stand by my assertion that the $ERRFILE grows without bound, and therefore, it should probably be controlled by an option in the /etc/X11/Xsession.options file. Thanks, -- Jeff Sheinberg
