Comment 25 for bug 7170

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:29:11 -0500
From: Branden Robinson <email address hidden>
To: Thomas Dickey <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#250655: xterm: crashes on paste from abiword

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On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 06:17:50PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 10:27:16PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> >=20
> > Okay, I will be patient while you explore this.
> >=20
> > Just as a remark to myself and my fellow "debian-x"ers, if it turns out
> > the bug is in Xt, this bug should be reassigned to libxt6.
>=20
> As far as I can determine, the bug is in the X libraries. Running against
> the XFree86 4.3.0 build tree, I can reproduce the bug. Running against
> XFree86 4.4.0 I cannot reproduce the bug. This is independent of the
> version of xterm, and since it appears to have been fixed in the later
> X libraries indicates to me that it should be reassigned to libxt6.

Are you reasonably confident that it's Xt that has been fixed upstream
or is that just a guess? I.e., could it be Xlib insteaad? Which way
would you bet?

It's not a really big deal, but I'm trying to get as much data as
possible in case someone else wants to sink their teeth into this.

(That might be me, armed with a diff of xf-4_3-branch and xf-4_4_0.)

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G. Branden Robinson | I'm not going to waste my precious
Debian GNU/Linux | flash memory with Perl when I can
<email address hidden> | do so much more with it.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Joey Hess

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