… or it never was really gone. Maybe we should put more emphasis on that during the T&S part of the New Maintainer process.

Quoting the changelog of avifile (1:0.7.43.20050224-1):

  * Xserver crashes are really Xserver crashes (Closes: 260808)
    I affraid you will have to bother the author of your XV driver
    directly - forwarding this bug to Xserver maintainer won't help you
    try to use Xorg server - should be doing fairly better job...

Hell, there is so much wrong here:

  • nothing changed to fix the bug, but this is a changelog
  • if its not an avifile bug, why close it in avifile
  • use email to reply to the submitter.

Maybe I should reopen the bug until the maintainer learns how to correctly handle such bugs… I think its not correct to close it (that doesn’t make the problem go away), and certainly not in a changelog.

Reassigning it to xserver-xfree86 is the correct way to handle it.