libX11 and xcb

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Sat, 10 Apr 2010, Jamey Sharp wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Timo Aaltonen <timo.aaltonen at aalto.fi> wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Jamey Sharp wrote:
>>> I may not have a complete picture of support issues, though. Ubuntu
>>> apparently fails to send XCB-related bug reports upstream, for example,
>>> and naturally I can't tell if other distros are failing the same way.
>>
>> Is this upstream enough?
>>
>> http://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27552
>
> Yes! Thanks. :-)
>
> Though I'd like to encourage people with libX11 bugs that might be
> XCB-related to CC xcb at lists.freedesktop.org, when filing them in
> Bugzilla. That helps ensure that XCB experts see them.

Ok thanks, I'll try to remember if there's a next time ;)

>> though it probably should've been upstreamed earlier, my bad for assuming it
>> was a dupe of the libXext related crasher.
>
> I was just grumpy that if I see an Ubuntu bug related to XCB, it's
> often full of negative comments. If what's really going on is that
> you're protecting me from your users' wrath, then thank you. :-)

Totally with you on this. The bug above is unlike the Sun java related one 
which hit us after inheriting xcb enabled libX11 from Debian roughly two 
years ago. _Those_ people were negative, though it was easy to work around in 
the end :) And this one is hard to reproduce despite the dupes :/


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Timo Aaltonen
Systems Specialist
IT Services, Aalto University