Bug#720289: more details

Larry Doolittle larry at doolittle.boa.org
Wed Aug 21 06:32:16 UTC 2013


Maybe I'm talking to myself.  The offending blacklist code is the
stanza on lines 329-332 of widget/xpwidgets/GfxInfoX11.cpp :

        if (aFeature == nsIGfxInfo::FEATURE_WEBGL_OPENGL) {
            *aStatus = nsIGfxInfo::FEATURE_BLOCKED_DRIVER_VERSION;
            aSuggestedDriverVersion.AssignLiteral("Not Mesa");
        }

Seems very purposeful.  This file is not touched by the Debian patch process,
so that snippet comes directly from iceweasel_17.0.8esr.orig.tar.bz2.

I have not found this stanza anywhere in a Mozilla version control
repository (I know git, but I don't claim to be a GitHub or Mozilla
expert), so I don't know what its historical context is.  Wikipedia
tells me FireFox 17 ESR was released on November 20, 2012.

My dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot of this package just ended, after
135 minutes of wall-clock time, apparently successfully.  So I guess
I could modify or disable this stanza and see how it goes.

Comments, anyone?

   - Larry



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