Re: vte [was Re: houston, we have a problem- 2.10 showstoppers]

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> This change has been in Fedora for months already and I think having a
> consistent release out there is more important than avoiding this
> somewhat obscure crash when resizing the window in minicom. If we have
> different codebases out there we end up with nothing getting fixed since
> it doesn't affect all users and then someone blames distro patches (and
> seemingly correctly in this case), but we get no traction on fixing
> stuff upstream.

If it basically only affects minicom then I tend to agree that the 
benefits will be greater than the drawbacks for the vast majority. I was 
just worried that the assertion could be triggered for any other 
application. And since if one terminal goes down, all go down, that 
would be pretty bad.

/Richard

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