[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#686501: unblock: xfwm4/4.8.3-2

Adam D. Barratt adam at adam-barratt.org.uk
Sun Sep 2 14:03:26 UTC 2012


Control: tags -1 + confirmed

On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 15:13 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> this is a pre-upload unblock request for xfwm4. It seems that Gtk3
> applications might trigger a bad behavior in xfwm, where the window
> might “jump” widely on the screen in some cases.
> 
> There's an upstream patch against xfwm4 4.10 which has been backported
> to 4.8. Could this be allowed in Wheezy? It's not really critical but
> it's very annoying in an Xfce desktop with gtk3 applications. The
> debdiff is attached.
> 
> There are some other change in debian/control (build-dep and standards
> versions) which can easily be reverted if needed.

A version with just the patch would be cleaner, but it looks like the
package is already using dh9 so the build-dep change is arguably a
no-op; please go ahead and let us know once the package has been
accepted.

Regards,

Adam



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