On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:33:23 +0100 Claude Krantz <claude.kra...@mpi-hd.mpg.de> wrote: > > Dear Thomas, > > As far as I understand Hendriks analysis, there is indeed nothing upstream > FVWM > can do about this. He included the fvwm mailing list before his analysis > showed > that the bug is introduced in Debian. > > Thanks for pointing out that one can effectively disable the patch also by an > undefine. While this may be technically interesting for the package > maintainers, > suggesting that Debian useres should routinely recompile their software on > need > is really beyond the scope of a binary distribution. >
I have updated the package in Debian to the newest Fvwm 2.6.7 release and in the process the offending patch is no longer being applied. If you get a chance can you confirm that using the newest upstream release fixes this issue. thanks jaimos
