Package: libx11-6
Version: 2:1.8.13-1
Severity: normal
A 19-year-old NEWS.Debian file has been added in this version:
/usr/share/doc/libx11-6/NEWS.Debian.gz
which contains
libx11 (2:1.1-1) experimental; urgency=low
[ Josh Triplett, Jamey Sharp ]
libx11 1.1 includes our work on Xlib/XCB, which uses XCB as the Xlib
transport layer, and allows a client to use both Xlib and XCB on the
same connection. This allows clients to transition from Xlib to XCB
incrementally. libx11-6 1.1 is API- and ABI-compatible with previous
versions, and does not require any software or package changes.
Ideally, you will not notice any
change at all. However, Xlib/XCB includes some additional
code to check for bugs in calling software. If you encounter a problem, you
will most likely just see an application disappear, due to having triggered
an assertion and aborted. If you ran the application from a terminal, you
can look there to see error output and get more details; otherwise, look at
~/.xsession-errors. These assertions look like one of these:
xcb_xlib.c:41: xcb_xlib_lock: Assertion `!c->xlib.lock' failed.
xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.
Both of these represent bugs in a caller of libX11, and *not* in
libX11 or libxcb. The first assertion means that a caller attempted
to lock the display while already locked. The second assertion means
that a caller attempted to unlock the display without having it
locked. If you encounter such bugs, please report a bug against the
offending software (*not* libx11-6 or libxcb), provide a backtrace,
and X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected] if you need help tracking
down the problem. If the bug always consistently occurs when running
the application (or in the case of a library, invoking the library),
use severity "important", and raise to "grave" after the etch release.
-- Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:36:55 -0800
This is confusing. It applied to libx11 1.1, but the current version
is 1.8.13.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500,
'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'),
(500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.18.12+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages libx11-6 depends on:
ii libc6 2.42-13
ii libx11-data 2:1.8.13-1
ii libxcb1 1.17.0-2+b2
libx11-6 recommends no packages.
libx11-6 suggests no packages.
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