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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I examined the patches mentioned above, and compared them against the
xserver code in lucid.  All the changes from the patches[1] are in the
lucid xserver.

I've tried to reproduce the issue on karmic but didn't have success
there, so I can't be sure I'm testing lucid correctly to verify it as
fixed.  You guys are going to need to do this, since you know what
you're looking for.  But I figure it's safe to assume if adding those
patches fixed it before, then since they're in the xserver now the issue
is resolved.

For future reference, if you attach patches to the bug report itself (as
opposed to simply referencing them by link) then the bug will bubble up
to the top of various bug listings I look at[2,3] and will be much more
likely to gain attention.

Also, if you've gone to the trouble of applying a patch to the source
package and building it locally, you've gone 80% of the way to fixing
the package yourself.  The last 20% is to create a debdiff[4] and
request an SRU[5].  Not to say you *have* to do that (like I said, if
you just post patches to the bug report, it brings them to my
attention), but it's totally something you could do if you needed to.

Finally, I would *highly* recommend updating the description of bug
reports like this one, where the original problem statement is a bit
terse, and there's an explosion of comments to have to wade through to
understand the current state of the problem.


1: From http://www.mail-archive.com/xorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg02587.html
2: http://www2.bryceharrington.org:8080/X/Reports/ubuntu-x-swat/patches.html
3: http://blog.launchpad.net/bug-tracking/getting-patches-upstream
4: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Howtos/Debdiff
5: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

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