[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#503878: Bug#503878: fglrx-atieventsd: authatieventsd.sh uses finger without depending on it and is unreliable

[Adeodato Simó]

* Romain Beauxis [Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:29:52 +0100]:

> Le Tuesday 04 November 2008 16:15:18 Bertrand Marc, vous avez écrit :
> > Hi!

> 	Hi !

> > I just sent a new version to the svn with a reasonable changelog (based
> > on #500077) and the patch for atienventsd. I think it is ready to upload
> > to unstable, but I can't test it as I don't have a ATI card anymore...

> Problem is that even though we could have considered asking for a testing 
> update from sid since fglrx is crappy in any version, I don't know wether it 
> is reasonable now, since it would need some decent testing.

> The plan could be to fix the package in lenny, as well as uploading a new 
> package for sid, wait for the bugs to come, and if it is still possible, 
> consider proposing an update.

> The issue is that it is quite hard for me to test the hardware now. Actually, 
> I don't plan on continuing the maintenance of this package after lenny is 
> released.

The priority is to get this bug fixed in Lenny, via unstable if that's
possible at all. Since the new upstream version has not been uploaded
yet, please upload a package that only addresses this bug.

I don't think a new upstream version is going to be appropriate, but we
can talk about it later when this bug is fixed in Lenny. I don't like
the idea of uploading the fix together with this new version, which
means that if the new version is not suitable, the fix for this bug will
have to go via testing-proposed-updates, which doesn't get any user
testing at all.

Thanks for your efforts,

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