On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:09 -0700, Jason Chu wrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:30:19PM +0100, Jan de Groot wrote:
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:12 -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
Is there any better way to handle this? When this gets moved to extra, people -Syu first, read front page news later.
I ask because I can't really think of a better way. Dang this is stupid.
The crashing xorg-server is in testing and will never make it to extra: we're against the input hotplugging as it breaks too many things, including a dbus restart. This warning is for testing users who also have xorg-server from testing installed.
I'm not against input hotplugging. I am against input hotplugging that dies when it loses the connection to dbus.
What other things does it break?
Crosspaste from other thread. Note that point 4 will take until next year to finish... something xorg-server-1.6'ish: 1. The dbus code is shit 2. Configuration of keyboard maps is shit 3. Suspend/resume is shit (probably related to 1.) 4. XInput itself is in very bad state already Point 1 can be triggered by /etc/rc.d/dbus restart. Point 2 can be triggered by wanting something else than a US keymap, combined with some nice non-standard variant Point 3 has been reported in combination with synaptics, but I haven't investigated on it further because I know 1 and 2 are valid. Point 4 was told to me at FOSDEM by Daniel Stone, the only maintainer I know that has the guts to mess with code that nobody wants to get his hands dirty on.