Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 15:54:11 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "J. Altman" <freebsd-announce@chthonic.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I am...unimpressed with this newest upgrade of X Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1005171536350.72591@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20100517211520.GA99190@chanas.pair.com> References: <20100517004537.GA91382@chanas.pair.com> <20100517200412.GB52057@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20100517211520.GA99190@chanas.pair.com>
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On Mon, 17 May 2010, J. Altman wrote: > I only know that suddenly, at least two applications are crashing. My > post to -questions basically asks if anyone else is seeing the same > issue; so far, no one else seems to be seeing the issue with > Seamonkey. > > I have no idea if it's an issue for the FreeBSD maintainers; the > Seamonkey maintainers; or the X maintainers. Seamonkey has not changed > in some time; X has. So I suspect it's the X maintainers, most likely, > that will need to investigate and push relevant changes downstream to > FreeBSD. Seeing as how there have been recent sweeping changes to jpeg, xorg, and now GNOME and KDE, it would be nice to verify exactly where the problem lies. A failed upgrade might be at fault, or even a successful one. pkg_libchk from the sysutils/bsdadminscripts port is worth running. >> Note that there was a "call for testing" for Xorg 7.5 in mid-March >> which allowed some of the rough edges to be corrected before it was >> actually committed. >> >> You might like to consider taking part in similar testing in future. > > Doubtful. That would require multiple machines. Or multiple hard drives. Or even just an additional partition for a test install. The nice thing about prerelease testing is that it gives you an early warning if there's a compatibility issue with your actual hardware. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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