[lug] another quasi-debian problem: fvwm

[Nate Duehr]

Bear Giles wrote:
> Another quasi-debian problem....
> 
> I made a minor upgrade of FVWM, from 2.4 to 2.5.
> 
> It totally blew off the old configuration information.  We're talking 
> "should have new major number" level of changes in the configuration 
> files.  Naturally there doesn't appear to be a migration document in the 
> Debian package.
> 
> How bad was it?  My 4x3 desktop went to 1x1.  I couldn't close windows, 
> or even minimize them, because all of the decorations went away.  The 
> sample configuration file was totally unusable - maybe the author can 
> read dark grey text on a black background, but I can't.
> 
> I found some documentation and made a little progress (emphasis on 
> little), but it was soon clear that I could spend a day fixing this 
> mess.  For that much investment it's time to reevaluate other window 
> managers.

This should be reported as a bug to the package maintainer.  Debian 
packagers are not supposed to do this.

The sample configuration is probably from upstream. That should be 
reported there if it is, but the package maintainer should handle that 
for you too, if they're good.

Nate