[09:50] <fish_> hi
[09:51] <fish_> can anyone tell me if this issue is suppose to be fixed? and maybe in general the best way to verify whether a bug was fixed in a release or not: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/883319
[09:52] <fish_> ehh.. if it's fixed in xenial
[09:53] <fish_> i've used aptitude changelog xorg and it's not saying anything about that patch
[09:53] <tjaalton> xorg is not the package
[09:54] <fish_> tjaalton: how do I know at which package to look? the issue just talked about xorg-server in general (and there is no xorg-server package)
[09:55] <tjaalton> xorg-server is the source package
[09:55] <tjaalton> xserver-xorg-core is the main binary package
[09:55] <fish_> tjaalton: can I somehow easily see the changelog of a source package? or get changelogs from all binary packages a source package generates?
[09:57] <fish_> I kinda realize in the last days how little I know about debian/ubuntu packaging.. I use debian and later ubuntu since like 10 years and yet my contributions back are little, compared to other stuff I'm using
[09:57] <tjaalton> zless /usr/share/doc/$pkg/changelog.Debian.gz
[09:57] <tjaalton> or apt-get changelog $pkg
[09:58] <fish_> tjaalton: yes, but for that I need to know first at what package to look
[09:59] <fish_> I mean, now I know but dropping in here and asking or guess based on the package name probabl'y isn't a good approach. especially given that I found the issue on launchpad already etc
[10:02] <fish_> can't believe upstream hasn't fixed this.. but it looks yes, this fix is in xenial.. so apparently I have a different issue
[10:03] <tjaalton> file a new one and upstream too
[10:03] <fish_> looks like the people on the issue also can't decide whether to open a new issue or reopen this one..
[10:04] <tjaalton> don't reopen
[10:04] <fish_> okay, will do that then - although upstream hasn't even fixed the original issue
[10:04] <tjaalton> it might just be a regression somewhere
[10:19] <fish_> ok: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1580123
[10:20] <fish_> ..and added xserver-xorg-core version
[10:22] <fish_> tjaalton: is there anything more I can do? a obvious thing I would do with other / my own software projects is simply trying to see if the problem persists in older versions but I don't know a easy way to install older xserver-xorg-core versions
[10:25] <tjaalton> fish_: file it upstream maybe
[10:26] <tjaalton> bugs.freedesktop.org
[10:26] <fish_> tjaalton: it still is, they never fixed the original issue it seems
[10:26] <fish_> but let me verify
[10:27] <fish_> yes, that's still this issue: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39949 which is still in NEEDINFO
[10:27] <fish_> ..for 5 years
[10:28] <fish_> and why you ask? "Because there are approximately zero active Xorg developers with enough
[10:28] <fish_> time to keep up on bugzilla."
[10:28] <fish_> meh :(
[10:29] <fish_> guess wayland is still no option for multiple monitor setup with scaling etc?
[10:32] <fish_> I guess the most reasonable workaround for my issues is... to buy a new external display somewhat matching my laptop's resolution
[10:35] <tjaalton> ah, so the patch never got applied upstream
[10:35] <tjaalton> and might've been dropped from the package
[10:57] <mdeslaur> tjaalton: bug 883319 originally had nothing to do with the upstream bug that got added to it
[10:57] <tjaalton> mdeslaur: oh?
[10:57] <mdeslaur> tjaalton: this is the commit that got SRUed https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=1bf81af4a6be1113bcc3b940ab264d5c9e0f0c5d
[10:57] <tjaalton> well that's where the hack came from
[10:58] <mdeslaur> tjaalton: someone added the upstream bug after the fact and piled on a whole bunch of unrelated similar issues to it
[10:58] <mdeslaur> it's become one of those catch-all bugs :P
[10:58] <tjaalton> at least there's a new one now
[10:59] <mdeslaur> yeah
[10:59] <tjaalton> ok I'll try the newer patch
[11:07] <fish_> let me know if I should try something. happy to build stuff from source as well if you can point me to the steps so I don't have to google everything together :)
[11:08] <tjaalton> fish_: well it would be quicker if you could try the patch from https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=94929
[11:08] <tjaalton> assuming it still applies without too much violence
[11:08] <tjaalton> but
[11:08] <tjaalton> 13:57 < ickle> it's been some time since I tried it
[11:08] <tjaalton> 13:58 < ickle> I don't think it is sufficient (at least for the panning + zoom reverting back to unscaled iirc)
[11:08] <tjaalton> when I asked chris about it
[11:11] <fish_> ok let see
[11:13] <tjaalton> drop it in debian/patches, add to series, it applies fine to the xenial source
[11:13] <tjaalton> or
[11:13] <tjaalton> I'll just push it to a ppa
[11:13] <fish_> even better :)
[11:18] <tjaalton> fish_: uploaded to https://launchpad.net/~tjaalton/+archive/ubuntu/test
[11:18] <tjaalton> but don't run apt upgrade or you'll get git mesa too
[11:19] <tjaalton> just apt install xserver-xorg-core should be enough
[11:19] <tjaalton> after enabling the ppa
[11:19] <tjaalton> and apt update
[11:19] <tjaalton> will take 30min to build and publish
[12:14] <fish_> testing now
[12:26] <fish_> tjaalton: okay, it fixes the problem but it makes xorg segfault after a few seconds
[12:28] <fish_> tjaalton: https://gist.github.com/discordianfish/e91a463ef66ba9dbb3a86f14fc43c129
[12:40] <tjaalton> heh, ok