[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#750080: Forwarding this to upstream

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,


Am Sonntag, den 21.09.2014, 00:31 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 00:19:42 +0200
> Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 20.09.2014, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher:
> > > To me this seems much like an upstream problem, since the problem just
> > > seems to be that xmonad isn't prepared to run without
> > > ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs. I guess a proper fix would be to either let xmonad
> > > create (and compile) a default configuration if it's missing or to run
> > > with such a default configuration without writing it to a file, but
> > > that's up to upstream.
> > 
> > well, it used to be the case that xmonad would run happily without
> > ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs, and I’m surprised that it is not the case any more.
> > Sven, did you reproduce the problem already? I didn’t find the time
> > (which involves things like logging out :-)) yet.
> 
> Yes I reproduced this (that's why I started to care about this bug).

great, I wasn’t sure.

> To reproduce this you don't need to log out. Just switch to a tty and
> run:
> $ xinit xmonad -- :1
> (If you have more than one xserver running you might need to change
> the :1 to some higher number)

True... 

But: The same using an unpatched xmonad works:
$ cabal unpack xmonad
$ cd xmonad-0.11
$ cabal build
$ xinit $PWD/dist/build/xmonad/xmonad -- :1


So it must be one of our patches... Unfortunately, none of them look
suspicious. Any ideas?


Weird.

Greetings,
Joachim

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