Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-07-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep xhackers /etc/group > xhackers:!:2000:branden,ishikawa,fabbione,jch,www-data,fenton,mdz,daenzer,mjg59,wt,rmh,dnusinow,bubulle,tretkowski > > (www-data doesn't count.) > > While it is true that only a fraction of these peop

runaway .xsession-errors vs. temp races: a compromise?

2004-07-06 Thread Chris Waters
I noticed that my ~/.xsession-errors file had grown to over a megabyte, even though I'd restarted X earlier today. Checking the changelog, I found this: "* Modify Xsession to always append to the error file, closing a temporary file race condition window if it has to fall back to using tempf

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-07-06 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 07:36:42PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 01:44:28AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > So call the group of people who can upload X something else. > > ...same thing they're called for all other group-maintained packages. For > example, for the xfree

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-07-06 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 07:40:32PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 01:26:59PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > Having only five or six people with SVN commit access does not mean that > > others cannot contribute. > > Actually the real figure is twice that. > > [E

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-07-06 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 07:43:26PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 01:35:30PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Yes, I indicated my extreme discomfort with the current XSF order. The > > current XSF order, however, is not necessarily something which need be > > set in stone, n

Bug#257835: xbase-clients: [xedit] crashing on ppc

2004-07-06 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Severity: normal In this and the last two previous versions or so xedit simply crashes: $xedit Segmentation fault (tried Germany locale and LC_ALL=C). gdb /usr/bin/X11/xedit GNU gdb 6.1-debian (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/X11R6/bin/xedi