Hi Norbert,
> I noted my concerns on the bug-report, I thought that counts as "talking to > the > package maintainers". Using "This helps" as Subject for mails to the BTS was not really helpful for sure, I could image that most people assumed it was spam. Here are some suggestions: - write a proper mail to the maintainer mailing list ([email protected]). - I don't know how much the usability of Debian is affected when the vmware xorg driver is being used. The BTS allows to change the severity. You might want to include a reason if you do so in your mail, also please note that people might still decide to ignore this issue for the upcoming release. See https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities for details. - Use virtualbox or some other virtualization system. > As far as I understand debian policy, such fixed wont ever make it into Jessie > later (outside of -backports). You understand it wrong (assuming that the fix is really this single line change...). Cheers, Bernd > > Kind Regards, > Norbert Lange > >> ---------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---------- >> Von: "Adam D. Barratt" <[email protected]> >> An: [email protected] >> Cc: [email protected] >> Datum: 5. März 2015 um 13:36 >> Betreff: Re: Serious issue with release candidate under VMWare >> >> Hi, >> >> On 2015-03-05 11:30, [email protected] wrote: >> > There is still an serious issue if you run "Jessie" under VMWare >> > Workstation/Player. Most of the time >> > the X-Server will hang on shutdown, causing the Machine to hang (not >> > even >> > possible to switch to a VT) and results in unclean "kills". >> > >> > The Bug is already in the tracker, together with a patch from upstream. >> > xserver-xorg-video-vmware Bug ( >> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765490 ) >> > >> > Please add this fix, otherwise Jessie will likely need some backport >> > fixes for >> > VMWare during its entire lifetime. >> >> Have you talked to the package maintainers? Leaving aside any question >> of whether the bug would qualify at this stage of the freeze, there's >> definitely no way the package can be updated in jessie when the fix >> isn't even in unstable. >> >> Regards, >> >> Adam -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
