[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#585531: TimeMon Preferences window's weird behavior

[Yavor Doganov]

Package: gnustep-back0.16-cairo
Version: 0.16.0-3

Paul Chany wrote:
> my system is Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze with kernel
> linux-image-2.6.32-3-486.

> When I run TimeMon and call it's Preferences window and when scroll in
> that window the text then I see this:
> http://csanyi-pal.info/album/index.php/image/view/6
> 
> Is this a bug in GNUstep or in Window Maker?

It's a bug in the GNUstep cairo backend that is fixed in 0.18.  I know
I told you to use cairo because art is horribly broken now, but I
forgot to say that cairo is _also_ broken in its own ways, at least in
squeeze/sid.  Apologies.

I'm afraid there's nothing we can do except to wait for the Debian's
release team permission to commence the long-awaited GNUstep
transition.

If you really really need GNUstep working on squeeze right now, there
is a way -- please write me off-list for details.  (I'm also running
squeeze on my workstation at work, and I use *art* -- only because I
can't stand the bug you experience -- with a manual hack around the
new maintainer scripts in the gnustep-back package that is still not
available even in experimental.  Although this is code I wrote myself,
I naturally cannot recommend you any other solution except Debian's
current stable release, Lenny.  Especially when system surgery is
necessary, as is the case.)

Sorry.