libx11 SRU

Walter Lapchynski wxl at ubuntu.com
Wed Jan 20 18:52:54 UTC 2021


Speaking for Lubuntu, we had a tricky [bug][1] in pcmanfm I had first
attributed to a GTK2 problem since it seemed to affect other GTK2
applications in exclusion to other toolkits, but it looks like it's
actually an issue with libx11. The fix is now in Hirsute, but it seems
like it would be reasonable to SRU to all supported releases.
Unfortunately, it's a library with wide-reaching impact and it is a
major version change, so it's not so easily implemented. Perhaps it's
simple to cherry pick the ultimate [fix][2] but I'm disinclined to
believe it's so simple. Dealing with something of this magnitude is a
bit outside of the capabilities of the wee Lubuntu team. That said, is
there any hope of getting this fix into released versions?

[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libx11/+bug/1782984
[2]:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/commit/dbb55e1a5e82870466b095097d9e46046680ec25

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