Bug#365488: Current GNOME crashes X

[Denis Barbier]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:37:23PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I feel very lost with this mail.  Xorg 7.0 is a goal for the etch release;
> in fact, getting it into testing is a goal for the coming week.  Why do you
> want to revert changes for supporting Xorg 7.0 in testing?  For that matter,
> why is libxklavier not able to support both Xorg 7.0 and older X servers
> (such as Xorg 6.9 and XFree86 4.3)?

If Xorg 7.0 is supposed to go in testing very soon, I guess that the
best option is to just wait and do nothing.  The problem with libxklavier10
is that it tries to parse the XKB configuration files which are
supposedly used by the X server.  In testing and unstable, libxklavier10
parses files from the xkb-data package and perform XKB calls which seem to
make X 6.9 crash (this version loads XKB files from the xlibs package).
Ideally this should not happen, but AFAICT nobody tried to fix this yet.

Denis