[arch-dev-public] Dangerous dbus update for testing

Tobias Powalowski t.powa at gmx.de
Wed Mar 12 18:01:53 EDT 2008


Am Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 schrieb Dan McGee:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> >  >  On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:12 -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
> >  >  > Is there any better way to handle this? When this gets moved to
> >  >  > extra, people -Syu first, read front page news later.
> >  >  >
> >  >  > I ask because I can't really think of a better way. Dang this is
> >  >  > stupid.
> >  >
> >  >  The crashing xorg-server is in testing and will never make it to
> >  > extra: we're against the input hotplugging as it breaks too many
> >  > things, including a dbus restart. This warning is for testing users
> >  > who also have xorg-server from testing installed.
> >
> >  Ooooh. This makes it more clear. So when we get a sane xorg-server
> >  that doesn't override keyboard layouts, then this won't be an issue. I
> >  didn't understand that part. That makes much more sense now 8)
>
> Ahh.
>
> So why haven't we purged ourselves of this broken xorg-server yet? I
> haven't seen too many +1 votes for it, and I've been staying away from
> using it after the early feedback.
>
> -Dan

here it breaks qemu keymapping, so -1 from me for the acutal xorg-server

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Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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