Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 14:23:26 +1000 (EST) From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: ache@astral.msk.su (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=) Cc: asami@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xterm dumps core Message-ID: <199510190423.OAA15359@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Fn8oSXmm24@ache.dialup.demos.ru> from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" at Oct 19, 95 06:56:56 am
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>>>>Andrey should think about the consequences of upsetting thousands of >>>>previously happy FreeBSD users when they discover that the X that they've >>>>been using just fine for a year or more on FreeBSD 2.0/2.0.5 no longer >>>>works, with problems ranging from xterm dumping core to compose processing >>>>no longer working. >>> >>>X shipped on the same CD as FreeBSD and it is newer that >>>2.0/2.0.5 variant, so upgrading recommended in this case. >>>I already make neccessary locale.alias additions. > >>Does this imply that the XFree86 shipped with 2.1 will contain the new >>names in locale.alias? If so, please do not call it simply "XFree86 > >Small correction: not "new" but "additional" names, I mean >that old names still present. >Yes, after Satoshi apply my patch and rebuilds XFree. > >>3.1.2" because that will lead to confusion with the definitive 3.1.2 >>version, and cause problems for someone who wants to upgrade their source >>to a new version with a future patch. Please make it clear that it is >>a version updated to include support for FreeBSD 2.1. > >Well, everything from ports area assumed to be tuned/configured/patched >especially for FreeBSD and goes under original names. But I think >nothing wrong happens, if patching fact will be specially mentioned >as you want. /usr/ports/Xfree86/pkg/DESCR should be updated >according to your proposal. Since Satoshi is our ports master, I pass this >issue to him. If it is distributed as the standard source + patches which get applied at build time, then fine. I'm not really worried about the run-time set. David
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