xserver-xorg-core update breaks X

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 8/22/06, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at numericable.fr> wrote:
> "Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, you can, but there's no point to it.  The current release in the
> > repositories is the same software that's installed on your machine
> > already.
>
> Is it ? I might be outdated on this, but when I read the bug report earlier today, the dev responsible for the pacakge said there were actually two patches in the "broken" X update. The offending one was identified and reverted, but I assume the other patch, being harmless, would have been kept.

That's quite possible, Vincent!  I've not read the report directly,
rather, I am going by the statements I've seen here that "the
offending patch" was backed up.  I made a bad assumption that meant
the "package patch" rather than the "source code patch" of which there
could have been more than one.

That's a good point, and my bad.  Apologies!

-- 
Chris

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