remove xview?

2008-01-14 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, After considering porter NMU on xview, I think x11 toolkit can safely be canned as museumware. Most damning is the lack of 64bit support. See #228957 and #320155, although a patch was produduced nobody bothered, applying it, nor is the author confident that patch is correct. The upstream is m

Re: remove xview?

2008-01-14 Thread Volker Ossenkopf
Hi Riku, I have to agree that xview is museumware, but according to the personal email response that I get for the two packages maintained by myself (workman and xvmount) there is still a noticeable community using them. I am myself convinced that none of the existing replacements for workman are

Re: remove xview?

2008-01-14 Thread Riku Voipio
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 02:49:46PM +0100, Volker Ossenkopf wrote: > community using them. I am myself convinced that none of the > existing replacements for workman are comparably simple, flexible > and powerful. I did not find any replacement for workman that > satisfied my needs. Both gnome and

Re: remove xview?

2008-01-14 Thread Jack T Mudge III
On Monday 14 January 2008 07:13:01 am Riku Voipio wrote: > It's not only lack of 64bit that makes xview a problem. If security > issues withing xview are found, it is unlikely that they get fixed > in a timely manner. Sometimes I wish there were a security warning system in dpkg. Say, a user loa

Re: remove xview?

2008-01-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Jan 15, 2008 6:29 AM, Jack T Mudge III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes I wish there were a security warning system in dpkg. Say, a user > loads up Synaptic (or Adept, depending), and when they try to install a > dangerous package -- maybe a server that opens ports by default -- they get

Re: remove xview?

2008-01-14 Thread Luk Claes
Jack T Mudge III wrote: > On Monday 14 January 2008 07:13:01 am Riku Voipio wrote: >> It's not only lack of 64bit that makes xview a problem. If security >> issues withing xview are found, it is unlikely that they get fixed >> in a timely manner. > > Sometimes I wish there were a security warning

Bug#460821: color wrong in watch column of xsel

2008-01-14 Thread Joe Nahmias
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: minor Looking at http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=jello, we see that for xsel the Watch column shows 1.0.0 in green; however the latest version in unstable is 0.9.6-3, so the color is incorrect -- it should be magenta. -- System Information: Debian Releas