Bug 18419 - Please make a new xedit release so that the fix for data loss bug 17726 will get to end-users
Summary: Please make a new xedit release so that the fix for data loss bug 17726 will ...
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: App/xedit (show other bugs)
Version: git
Hardware: All All
: medium major
Assignee: Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2008-11-06 23:01 UTC by Jason Spiro
Modified: 2008-11-08 18:04 UTC (History)
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Description Jason Spiro 2008-11-06 23:01:37 UTC 
Thanks for fixing xedit data loss bug 17726.  But xedit had already been temporarily removed from Debian; we decided it should be removed because of the bug.[1]

Now that you have fixed the bug, would it be possible you could please make a new xedit release?  That way xedit can get back into Debian.  And all Linux distros will get a new xedit without the bug; this will prevent xedit users in those distros from continuing to experience the bug.

^  [1].  http://bugs.debian.org/321434#56
Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2008-11-07 08:17:50 UTC 
Wait, xedit has users?
Comment 2 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade 2008-11-07 08:46:35 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Wait, xedit has users?

  I use it daily, save a few cases where I would use vi
(due to not having X) or ed (due to not having /usr or vi)
  I also used emacs before, and once I typed gedit by mistake.

  Now I believe Jason also uses it, and I was told there was
another guy in Brasil that used it some years ago :-)

  I was delaying a new release as the last one was done
recently, and there aren't many changes, besides this bug
correction. But I will make another one, that also requires
a new Xaw (also with very small changes) to have all known
regressions corrected.
Comment 3 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade 2008-11-07 11:27:28 UTC 
  Thanks for the bug report.

  Xedit 1.1.2 should correct this problem, as well as
some other regressions.
Comment 4 Jason Spiro 2008-11-08 18:04:53 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
>   I use it daily, save a few cases where I would use vi
> (due to not having X) or ed (due to not having /usr or vi)
>   I also used emacs before, and once I typed gedit by mistake.
> 
>   Now I believe Jason also uses it, and I was told there was
> another guy in Brasil that used it some years ago :-)

Yes, and from http://bugs.debian.org/321434 it appears that mdt @ emdete.de, herman @ opera.com, and salzer @ logic.at probably also use it.  If there is a mandriva xedit package, and Mandriva can collect usage statistics, you could get a better idea of how many users you have.  Also remember, for every user who contacts you, there are many more users who haven't contacted you.  :-)

Thanks for rolling out the new release so quickly.  I told the Debian x11-apps maintainer, who is very responsive; I am sure it will be packaged in Debian soon, and in a released Ubuntu within 6-12 months.

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