On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 05:41:06AM -0000, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > Guys, please don't do this. This has been abundantly tested enough as it > is, by myself and others. The symlink causes too many problems. It was > removed for good reasons. Do NOT re-introduce it!
The problem is that we have a very real risk of regression for users who have static xorg.conf, and still no clear understanding of what the reasons are that necessitated the removal of the symlink; i.e., we have the statement that it broke LTSP, but on the other hand we don't have any logs that show what broke, we have a statement of the X maintainer that it shouldn't have broken, and we have Oliver's tests which show it didn't break for him. Can we please pinpoint what's different between the systems where it broke for you, and the system where Oliver found that it worked fine with the symlink? When it appeared that the symlink broke the use of the driver for all or most users, I was willing to allow this as an SRU; now it appears that others who have tested the package can't reproduce the problem, which both lowers the benefit of the SRU (since it's not broken for everyone) and increases the severity of the regression (since users who have Driver "amd" set don't necessarily have unusable systems). > However, if you REALLY insist on keeping the symbolic link, then at > least make it purgeable by putting it in the -amd transitional package, > not in the main -geode package. Oh yes, that would be fine with me; I don't understand why the compat symlink wasn't put there in the first place. If you think that's the best option, I can do an upload of this tomorrow. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- please add "geode" to driver list in hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219630 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
