Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?
On Jul 12, 2006 at 20:39, Art Edwards praised the llamas by saying: The point is that they do not work exactly fine. For ddd, the console at the bottom is dead. The keyboard fails. For grace(xmgrace) the same symptom is present in all text boxes. This appears to be a pretty general problem because the same is true for Fedora Core 5, but not for Fedora Core 4. I have compiled xmgrace from sources and I have the same problem. I have done some looking and this problem surfaced several years ago on a cygwin list. Just for the record, when I invoke xmgrace from the command line, I receive many errors like this: Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp I get exactly the same set from ddd. Again, this is true for AMD64 for both Debian and for Fedora Core 5. Can you file bugs about both these issues using the reportbug tool so the maintainers are made aware of the problems. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?
On Jul 12, 2006 at 21:52, Art Edwards praised the llamas by saying: I posted the same initial message on the three sites I thought were appropriate. My plea for honesty was a measure of frustration with what should be well-established packages. It turns out that in the newer distros, the structure of /usr/X11R6 has changed dramatically enough that it broke a .cshrc file that had worked for five years. Your fustration clearly hasn't reached a point where you felt it necessary to file a bug report about the issues you've faced. We can not fix problems if we don't know about them. I can not find a single bug report about the issues you've raised and I can only find one bug submitted by yourself. Occasionally we need to make incompatible changes to improve the distribution. The NEWS.Debian for Xorg should detail these changes. I would imagine that this change is significant to warrant a debconf notice during upgrade. I would also hope it is detailed in the Etch release notes, although I'd understand if these haven't been completely written yet. Arguably there should be symlinks in place so that the upgrade doesn't break your .cshrc file. I would suggest filing a bug against the package that contais the file that has moved, explaining that there is a regression. Please file bugs in our BTS as it is the only way maintainers can reliably discover problems in the distribution. A large number of developers do not read any of the lists you've posted to. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
