Re: xvfb issue for lsb-vsw4

Stuart Anderson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.test-suite
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Lawrence Lim wrote:

> Hello all,
>
>> (2) grant a TSD waiver for these tests, which implies that these
>> tests would be rewritten not to require that the display has backing store.
>
> I am leaning towards #2. My reasons are as follows:
>
> 1. IMHO, Test Case should not be testing functionalities that is not
> included in latest upstream stable release.

It is included in 6.9-RC0.

> 2. In https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2966, it was
> mentioned that the patch for backing store has been committed. However,
> that was in April 2005. The stable release was created in Feb 2005.

It was just a bug that it was broken upstream for some short period of time.
That functionallity has been present for over a decade so expecting it to be
there is not new or unusual.



                                  Stuart

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