Bug 279176 – x11-terms/xterm-243 stabilization request

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 282290
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto 2009-07-26 13:50:39 UTC]

The audible bell does not work in x11-terms/xterm-242, but works in xterm-243.
This seems to affect users of other distributions too:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520405 (#520405 - xterm: bell no longer sounds - Debian Bug report logs)
Since xterm-243 entered the tree in 2009-05-05, has not been changed since then,  and a Gentoo bugzilla search[0] uncover no regressions, I think it should be stabilized soon.
I myself am on stable x86, and have been using xterm-243 for a couple of days. My usage, consisting of bash, screen and elinks shows no bug in this version (and I get an audible bell, which was the reason for adding ~x11-terms/xterm-243 to package.keywords). Also applications such as alsamixer and the kernel menuconfig work well.

[0] http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=x11-terms%2fxterm


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Wormo (RETIRED) 2009-07-26 23:56:30 UTC]

Thanks for reporting your results from using xterm-243 -- assigning stabilization request to maintainers.

[Comment 2 Łukasz Stelmach 2009-08-12 18:15:53 UTC]

I have not noticed any problems with XTerm 243 on amd64 too.

[Comment 3 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-08-17 22:45:58 UTC]

We'll do that one along with xorg-server 1.6

[Comment 4 Thomas Dickey 2009-09-22 23:48:22 UTC]

#243 has a display bug.
#248 is preferable no regressions found so far, though
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524503
is an older bug aggravated by the #244 changes.

I'm working on #249, which will be bug-fixes only.

[Comment 5 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-09-23 05:38:56 UTC]

Hi Thomas,

Please let me know which xterm you would like us to stabilize along with xorg 1.6

Thanks

[Comment 6 Thomas Dickey 2009-09-23 08:51:32 UTC]

hmm - the Redhat bug report is for a fatal error which would occur
in a relatively rare case.  The display bug is here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522141

and the fix was more than a couple of lines (so it's unsuitable for a
backport).  It's cosmetic, but sooner reported than the Redhat bug,
and #243 is from March - getting old.  But no one in this group seems
to have tested anything more recent.  So I guess you should finish this
one (with #243) and open a new issue to stabilize with #249 (which will
be "soon").

[Comment 7 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-09-24 08:23:58 UTC]

#243 is on the list for bug 282290, so closing as dupe

Thomas, I've added #248 to Portage today so we are up to date again

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 282290 ***