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Hey everyone, |
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If anybody has good reasons why -r4 shouldn't be unleashed upon the |
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unsuspecting ~arch users, respond to this (on-list please) before 0000 |
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UTC Wednesday. Why then? Well, my finals will be over, so I'll have time |
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to deal with the expected deluge of reports. |
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Why is -r4 interesting again? |
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/22986 details a number |
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of the changes. I recently added a new patchset with some more, |
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including fixes to: |
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* keyboard model default and key repeating -- might fix a few "some of |
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my keys don't work" problems, because the default used to be pc101 |
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rather than pc105 with the new kbd driver. |
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* libGL segfaults |
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* some xmodmap problems |
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* latest Xpm security fix allows absolute paths again (fixes the GIMP's |
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Xpm plugin) |
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We need more testers to see which other packages are broken regarding |
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how they test for X libraries. Some of them assume the libraries won't |
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be in /usr/lib so supply a -L/path/to/X/libs even if they're |
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in /usr/lib. This results in a naked -L, which breaks things. If anyone |
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sees things suddenly breaking, check config.log for this. See |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72124 for an example fix. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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