Re: Bug#666490: O: svgalib -- console SVGA display libraries

2013-05-27 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 07:30:20PM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: Hi, On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 02:59:24AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Thanks for your work, but isn't it time we quietly got rid of this library? Video memory and mode setting should be managed by the kernel, not by

Re: Bug#666490: O: svgalib -- console SVGA display libraries

2013-05-13 Thread Stephen Kitt
Hi, On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 02:59:24AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Thanks for your work, but isn't it time we quietly got rid of this library? Video memory and mode setting should be managed by the kernel, not by applications. It's bad enough that we had the X server doing this for years

Bug#666490: O: svgalib -- console SVGA display libraries

2012-03-30 Thread Guillem Jover
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I've just orphaned svgalib by uploading 1.4.x and 1.9.x packages with pending changes to unstable and experimental. I recently contacted upstream to send patches back, but was offered taking over upstream maintainership instead because he is not interested in it