Comment 3 for bug 56427

As David pointed out, the code in question is very problematic with practically
no added benefit, and can occasionally lead to serious data loss. We have
disabled this code in Debian's X.org packages by applying the patch which I will
attach to the report; nobody has complained so far. I'm taking the liberty to
bump the severity of this bug a notch, in the hope that somebody will care
enough to apply it (or propose an alternative solution).

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Jurij Smakov
Debian SPARC port maintainer