Bernd, I see you taken care of the issue or atleast pushed the correct persons. Thanks alot.
Regards, norbert ---- Bernd Zeimetz schrieb ---- >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
