Bug#400632: x11-common should not ship a SUID root binary

2008-02-04 Thread Stephen Frost
Package: x11-common Severity: serious tags 400632 -wontfix Greetings, The setuid usr/bin/X binary should not be shipped with x11-common because it's not *needed* for X11 clients. That by itself is a good enough reason. Put it in xserver-xorg-core or similar, not in x11-common. Additionally, x1

Crash with experimental packages

2003-12-03 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, I just started using the experimental packages of 4.3.0 and have run into a problem. Basically the X server is crashing nightly. The main error is "client not in use". A bit of googling seemed to indicate that maybe there's a problem with the fonts? The only thing changing

Re: Why XFree86 4.2 Isn't in Woody

2002-04-16 Thread Stephen Frost
* Sven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > That said, what are your planes for woody+1 ? Just to talk about things I've no clue about I'll reply to this. My personal thoughts are that woody+1 will take a while and by then there will be more X releases than 4.3. Even so though, if the PCI Domain stuff

Unidentified subject!

2001-09-02 Thread Stephen Frost
Hi, For those interested, the patch to fix Xinerama segfaulting in X4.1.0 is in the current X CVS tree and is also in the bug report #107385: http://bugs.debian.org/107385 I've also compiled X-4.1.0-4 debs with this patch applied which can be found at http

Unidentified subject!

2001-09-02 Thread Stephen Frost
Hi, For those interested, the patch to fix Xinerama segfaulting in X4.1.0 is in the current X CVS tree and is also in the bug report #107385: http://bugs.debian.org/107385 I've also compiled X-4.1.0-4 debs with this patch applied which can be found at htt

Re: XFree86 on mips cleanup patch

2001-07-25 Thread Stephen Frost
* Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 09:38:13PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > > Hi, > > the attached patch removes some previous workarounds by adding proper > > functions to compiler.h for mips(el). This obsoletes the disabling of > > the ati driver on mips(351) and

Re: XFree86 on mips cleanup patch

2001-07-25 Thread Stephen Frost
* Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 09:38:13PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > > Hi, > > the attached patch removes some previous workarounds by adding proper > > functions to compiler.h for mips(el). This obsoletes the disabling of > > the ati driver on mips(351) and

Re: help needed to get XFree86 4.1.0 working on MIPS

2001-07-20 Thread Stephen Frost
* Guido Guenther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The attached three patches fix the server build. Excellent, I'll kick off a build of the server in a few minutes with these patches in place and then try and test X running on my console when I get home tonight.

Re: help needed to get XFree86 4.1.0 working on MIPS

2001-07-20 Thread Stephen Frost
* Guido Guenther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The attached three patches fix the server build. Excellent, I'll kick off a build of the server in a few minutes with these patches in place and then try and test X running on my console when I get home tonight.

Re: help needed to get XFree86 4.1.0 working on MIPS

2001-07-19 Thread Stephen Frost
* Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [I do not subscribe to debian-mips; please include debian-x when replying.] > > Ryan Murray reported to me that a 4.1 compile on mips fails. This is an update to this issue. After adding another parameter to RANGE ('0' for pci domai

Re: help needed to get XFree86 4.1.0 working on MIPS

2001-07-18 Thread Stephen Frost
* Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [I do not subscribe to debian-mips; please include debian-x when replying.] > > Ryan Murray reported to me that a 4.1 compile on mips fails. This is an update to this issue. After adding another parameter to RANGE ('0' for pci doma

Packages.gz @ samosa.debian.org/~branden woody/i386

2000-10-12 Thread Stephen Frost
Just fyi, looks like the Packages.gz is out of date with regard to the actual packages stored @ the URL above. Dunno if that was intentional or not but figured I'd mention it. Stephen pgpIVxXW3hQaw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Packages.gz @ samosa.debian.org/~branden woody/i386

2000-10-12 Thread Stephen Frost
Just fyi, looks like the Packages.gz is out of date with regard to the actual packages stored @ the URL above. Dunno if that was intentional or not but figured I'd mention it. Stephen PGP signature

dexter && dialog

2000-10-11 Thread Stephen Frost
Just fyi, dexter needs dialog, but it isn't in the depends list so if it's not installed dexter breaks. :) Stephen pgpriDmdMMlzt.pgp Description: PGP signature

dexter && dialog

2000-10-11 Thread Stephen Frost
Just fyi, dexter needs dialog, but it isn't in the depends list so if it's not installed dexter breaks. :) Stephen PGP signature