Bug#537487: opencity: segfaults at start

Piotr Lewandowski piotr.lewandowski at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 21:34:20 UTC 2009


* Gonéri Le Bouder <goneri at rulezlan.org>, 2009-08-04 22:43:
>> If this package is required to run opencity, doesn't it
>> should be included in Depends:? Otherwise, opencity
>> shouldn't segfault in the first place.
>
> xserver-xorg has already a dependency on libgl1-mesa-dri. I
> don't think we need a dependency between x11 server and a
> software. It's like DB and a webapp. Both can be installed on
> a different machine.

I agree with you completely when it comes to dependency issues. OTOH I 
still believe that opencity should gracefully exit when libgl1-mesa-dri 
is not installed. Segfault is just not the most user-friendly behaviour. 

-- 
Piotr Lewandowski





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