Bug#646639: xboard: please advise users to migrate their X resources
Nikolaus Schulz
microschulz at web.de
Tue Oct 25 22:53:24 UTC 2011
Package: xboard
Version: 4.5.3-1
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
xboard 4.5 no longer honours configuration settings defined by X
resources, but uses a new configuration file ~/.xboardrc instead.
Configuration options previously set by X resources can be restored by
either setting them in the configuration file, or by configuring them
manually in the GUI configuration dialogs, after which they will be
preserved.
Still, such an important but undocumented change is fairly disruptive.
Please add a simple NEWS.Debian file advising to migrate existing X
resource setups for xboard to the configuration file.
Also, the manual page and info manual still refer to the configuration
as per X resources; they should be updated accordingly.
Thanks,
Nikolaus
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xboard depends on:
ii dpkg 1.16.1.1
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-8
ii libc6 2.13-21
ii libice6 2:1.0.7-2
ii libsm6 2:1.2.0-2
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-2
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.9-3
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.0-3
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.9-3
ii libxt6 1:1.1.1-2
Versions of packages xboard recommends:
ii fairymax 4.8q-2
ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.3
ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.3
Versions of packages xboard suggests:
ii aterm [x-terminal-emulator] 1.0.1-7+b1
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.0.1-1
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 276-1
-- no debconf information
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