On 11/01/2014 21:32, Niels Thykier wrote: >> So far #733122. Barring that, the GNOME desktop seems to work fine (including >> empathy, nautilus, etc). Once the patch in #733122 is applied, it will be >> easier >> to gather reports from day-to-day users and provide a more complete >> assessment. >> > > Thanks for looking into this. I have asked on #d-gnome about the patch > you submitted; hopefully it can be applied soon, so we can get a better > view.
Excellent, thanks. >> We can help as porters but we can't maintain abandoned codepaths on our own. >> I >> think GDM upstream doesn't want to deal with this problem, so perhaps it is >> better >> if we accept that GDM is not a portable program anymore, and make it >> Linux-only. > > Do you have an idea of the consequences of making it linux-only? If it > is just using (e.g.) xdm instead of and kFreeBSD losing a couple of > packages, it will probably not be much of an issue. But then, I assume > that GNOME and GDM are not tightly coupled. Yes, I think that's the case. I still have to look a bit more carefully though, so please don't take my word on it. I'll followup on this. >> #649196 is probably not an issue anymore. We've replaced our thread >> implementation >> since. >> > > Okay, perhaps you could follow up on the bug with that information and > ask if it is still an issue? Done. (I'll reply to the remaining bits in a separate mail) -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52d1bd86.60...@debian.org
