On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 05:40:11PM -0500, Gaetan Nadon wrote: >> On 12-01-24 05:06 PM, Matt Turner wrote: >> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> wrote: >> >> Actually the issue relative to xterm was reported over in GenToo this >> >> week. >> > Samuli and I are Gentoo developers >> > >> >> It seems that xorg changes have broken a more than 10-year old >> >> packaging arrangement. >> > Sorry for trying to maintain previously unmaintained software? >> > >> >> That's a bug in your code, and cannot be excused by citing a user request >> >> to provide configurability. >> > Not sure who or what you mean. It was certainly a bug in Gentoo -- I >> > didn't provide a knob to configure this feature. >> > >> I am a bit confused, this is a new X.Org module. Anyway, the comments I > > But Xaw3d has been packaged in various places all along. > Lack of involvement by xorg hackers doesn't bear into the matter. > Linux is irrelevant as well in this discussion. > > For instance, I see in a quick check the Darwin and FreeBSD ports > as well as NetBSD (pkgsrc) and Solaris (opencsw and sunfreeware). > > What is relevant is providing a new version of a long-used > package which drops a major part of its functionality by default.
The old Xaw3d-1.5 used imake, and the new 1.6 uses autotools, so we didn't realize that internationalization was on-by-default with the old version. > That only leads to bug reports (and sadly, xorg hackers as a rule > are not proactive in this area, generally expecting everyone who has an > issue to come _here_). I'm not sure what you're talking about. I released libXaw3d-1.6 upstream. I added 1.6 to Gentoo. I fielded a couple of bug reports Samuli filed in the Gentoo and FreeDesktop bugzillas. I sent two patches in response. I don't understand what we're going round and round about. Maybe the lesson should simply be don't bother users of unmaintained software so quickly after finding problems in a new release. _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel