[Xastir] Ubuntu 10.04 problem with repository xastir package

[Rick Green]

On Fri, 7 May 2010, Lee Bengston wrote:

>> On Fri, 7 May 2010, Tom Russo wrote:
>>
>>> The ideal fix is to update to a version of Xorg-server that has the fix.
>>> Another option is to manually patch Motif libraries.  The third is to
>>> figure
>>> out a way to work around it in applications.
>>>
>
> The best option is to get the latest Xastir from CVS thus avoiding
> installing Lesstif from source.  With the latest CVS version of
> Xastir, install openMotif from the repository instead.
>
  That doesn't really answer my question.  If the patch to lesstif is 
addressing the same bug, then isn't it better to patch it there, where it 
will fix all motif applications, rather than relying on a workaround in a 
single application?
   And if the bug is really in Xorg, wouldn't it be even better to backport 
the patch into the Ubuntu Xorg sources, than to even implement a 
workaround in motif?

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