Bug#230151: occasional metacity SEGV on workspace change

[Chad Miller]

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On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:01:23PM +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Have you read the severity descriptions ?

Yes, I knew them.

> Do you really think that the package is unusable ?

If you exec your window manager at the end of your .xinitrc, as so many
people do, and your window manager SEGVs, then X closes and kills all of
your running X clients, regardless of running state.

I'm pretty sure that potential for data loss gets a grave severity,
even if it doesn't affect every user.


> After crashes metacity restart in a few second, so it's annoying but
> doesn't make the package unusable imho, so I'm changing the
> severity. Let me know if you agree.

You're relying on functionality of another package to mitigate the
severity of a metacity bug.  Not everyone is doing that; if metacity
ever Depends on (or Recommends or even Suggests) package gnome-session,
it might be justifiable.

							- chad

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