Re: Bug#666490: O: svgalib -- console SVGA display libraries

2013-05-27 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 07:30:20PM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 02:59:24AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Thanks for your work, but isn't it time we quietly got rid of this > > library? Video memory and mode setting should be managed by the kernel, > > not by appl

Re: Bug#666490: O: svgalib -- console SVGA display libraries

2013-05-13 Thread Stephen Kitt
Hi, On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 02:59:24AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Thanks for your work, but isn't it time we quietly got rid of this > library? Video memory and mode setting should be managed by the kernel, > not by applications. It's bad enough that we had the X server doing > this for years

Bug#666490: O: svgalib -- console SVGA display libraries

2012-03-30 Thread Guillem Jover
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I've just orphaned svgalib by uploading 1.4.x and 1.9.x packages with pending changes to unstable and experimental. I recently contacted upstream to send patches back, but was offered taking over upstream maintainership instead because he is not interested in it anym