On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Branden Robinson wrote: > Well, no, the idea is simply that we take advantage of defoma if it is > installed, since we can trust it to run fc-cache. If it's not, we run > fc-cache ourselves. > > This is not intended as a workaround. If there's anything else defoma > wants done with the fonts, it can do it.
ok. thanks for the explanation. > > * Implement IsolateDevice and SingleCard layout options for XF86Config, > > and > > -isolateDevice command-line flag for XFree86 X server. Useful for > > multi-card setups where different X servers run on each card (thanks, > > Andreas Schuldei). (Closes: #207543) > > > > This looks a bit dangerous to my eyes. I am not 100% happy to include it > > but it for sure needs a more global roll out. I would say it goes in for > > -8, but it will fly away at the first problem related to it and if Andreas > > cannot fix it in a reasonable amount of time. (it would be the only > > dangerous bit in this release) > > It looksed dangerous to me, but I'm not quite as nervous about it now > that I've read the code. > > I agree that it should be the first thing to go if this release has > weird problems in the X server/PCI department. perfect. > People shouldn't run "/etc/init.d/$SCRIPT" anymore; they should use > "invoke-rc.d $SCRIPT" instead. > > There have been many threads on -devel about this. if they were inside flamewars than i didn't read it for sure ;) > Some of the earlier stuff I committed does need to be re-reviewed to > ensure that it is licensing-clean, and documented thus. [SNIP] > just avoid XFree86 CVS commits after 2004-02-13 on general principle. > Most changes that would be of interest us were submitted by external > people to their Bugzilla, and/or are authored by people who don't mind > using the traditional license. I fully agree that we can simply avoid any commit after 2004-02-13 and we can consider safe everything before, for this release. If the s**t hits the fan we will revert the changes.. too bad but hey.., it's life. > If you have any more questions or concerns about the pending changes, > please let me know. Otherwise, if I have addressed your questions > satisfactorily, give me the green light and I'll do the merge onto > branches/4.3.0/sid. Apollo 13 this is Houston: you are ready to go! > > >From the TODO list, the following fixes should be included/done for -8 in > > order of priority: > > > > * #242865: remove (unused) sourceless binary exectables from source tree > > > > * #239991: Fix SEGV in xc/lib/X11/imDefIc.c:_XimRegisterKeyPressFilter(). > > > > * #147898: xlibs: select() hangs in XDrawString16() when using TrueType with > > > > * #222804: xlibs: [xkb] proposed symbol mapping for Compaq Evo > > > > * #241034: xlibs: Meta not working and AltGr cancels Compose with > > > > and all of them have patches/fixes ready but included in trunk. > > *Not* included, right. > > Okay. I will work on those items in that order of priority. great! Thanks Fabio -- <user> fajita: step one <fajita> Whatever the problem, step one is always to look in the error log. <user> fajita: step two <fajita> When in danger or in doubt, step two is to scream and shout.
