Am 18.06.2019 18:33, schrieb Adam Jackson: > On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 10:31 +0000, Wheatley, Martin R wrote: > >> If Oracle will only take the Xorg source rather (as opposed to fixing >> it - or even discussing a fix with Xorg - and pushing the fix back to >> Xorg) who and when will the issue be fixed so that I can put pressure >> on Oracle to generate a patch from the new Xorg code thus improving >> the reliability of my control room operation? > > The X.Org Foundation does not have development resources of its own. > Individual and corporate contributors do work on the various > components, but usually that work is prioritized by individual or > corporate interest. (For example, my employer has very little interest > in, say, xcalc, and neither do I, so I tend not to notice issues > reported there.) As with many open source projects, patches carry more > weight than bug reports. Changing to gitlab has (hopefully) made it > significantly easier to submit drive-by fixes for issues like this. > > To this specific bug: ooh, you can fix this by deletion, my favorite > kind of fix. I think this will resolve it: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xauth/merge_requests/1 > > xauth looks like it has a few other minor fixes that have accumulated, > I'll be happy to push out a new release once that MR is resolved. I'm > not especially familiar with Solaris these days, but xauth itself has > changed so little that I suspect you can build it from source without > too much trouble, should you need to. If you need to get the fix > through an authorized support channel, well, talk to them. > > - ajax >
your errormsg is a bit confusing for me, would you mind to change "link" to "rename" ? something like that ? re, wh _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
