Am Montag, den 24.12.2007, 23:28 +0100 schrieb Brice Goglin: > Thank you very much for your input, I am going to forward all your > analysis in the upstream bug and I hope someone will be here to confirm > that you're right. I got around to test a patched xserver on my 6x86 machine. The X server works fine with this patch.
Surely this has been discussed multiple times: The nice thing about debian stable is, that you can rely on all features and misfeatures in it, so if you hacked a workaround for a bug that suddenly stops working if the bug disappears, it will not stop working in debian stable. Of course this policy has its merits. But if a bug prevents the use of certain features completely, nothing can be broken by fixing this bug, so a fix might be appropriate for stable. Debian isn't doing it because of the philosophy of only adding security updates to stable. Is there some third-party repository that includes this kind of harmless bug fixes (I would call it something like stable-recommended-updates), do you have any pointers to a discussion on debian-devel about this subject? Regards, Michael Karcher -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
