Bug#273194: xterm: characters from paste buffer lost at roughly 4kB intervals [kernel pty bug?]

2023-02-03 Thread Max Bell
This bug has been present since at least the 5.14 kernel. It's profoundly annoying and shouldn't have been allowed to slip into production release. Maybe someone could fix the problem this year? It's really pathetic when things that worked perfectly 20 years ago are broken because of shoddy code ch

Bug#1016363: libx11-6 1.8.1 also breaks glxinfo

2022-08-03 Thread Max Bell
Why isn't the bug being fixed? That is obviously the correct solution. On 8/3/22, Richard B. Kreckel wrote: > This is issue 157 upstream: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/issues/157 > Apparently, they do not want to revert it. > > So, should Debian build with --disable-thread-sa

Bug#1016363: More info about the fvwm deadlock with libx11-6 1.8.1

2022-07-30 Thread Max Bell
Assuming this issue effects only one app is defective. Fix the broken compatibly with legacy code as this solves it for all programs. And does not require rewriting an unknown number of apps, that probably don't have maintainers to fix things, to keep working vs. being rendered unusable. On 7/30/2