[SCM] mplayer packaging branch, karmic, updated. debian/1.0.rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu3-1-gd2ac685

A Mennucc debdev at tonelli.sns.it
Tue Jun 23 10:31:25 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 02:29:26PM +0000, siretart at users.alioth.debian.org wrote:
> The following commit has been merged in the karmic branch:
> commit d2ac685e61922ea7e53686568b6c887a0ac6eaaf
> Author: Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de>
> Date:   Wed Jun 17 16:29:03 2009 +0200
> 
>     remove 22disable-xscreensaver.patch
>     
>     Faking input keyboard or mouse events is clearly the wrong approach to
>     the problem. Actually, it is even potentially dangerous, because it can
>     cause unexpected sideeffects on the users desktop (closing windows,
>     sending messages, etc). Moreover, this doesn't seem to work with
>     gnome-screensaver after all.

I beg to disagree.

When I created that patch, I tested it a lot, and it never proved to be dangerous.
Do you have evidence that it *IS* dangerous ? Did you test it?
Do you know how the patch works?

Also, the fact that it does not work with gnome-screensaver does not
mean that the patch should be killed, for at least two good reasons:
1) there are a lot of other screensavers around, and there is KDE, etc etc;
2) there is AFAIK no support for gnome-screensaver in mplayer, and
 removing this patch does not fix the problem. That is,
 the fact that this patch does not work with gnome-screensaver
 does not imply its removal in any way that I can think of.

a.



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