Subject: bug#901: libXm4: XmVaCreateSimpleCheckBox() is Broken

From: Peter Radisson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 22:42:32 +0200

Package: libxm4
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email-masked]
Version: 2.3.8-3
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

the function XmVaCreateSimpleCheckBox() is broken. It should work like 
XmVaCreateSimpleRadioBox() with 
XtVaSetValues(radio_box,XmNradioBehavior, FALSE,NULL);
but produces nothing. example code is attached.

-- System Information:
Distributor ID: Devuan
Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera)
Release:        4
Codename:       chimaera
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-14-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, 
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 
(charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages libxm4 depends on:
ii  libc6            2.31-13+deb11u3
ii  libfontconfig1   2.13.1-4.2
ii  libjpeg62-turbo  1:2.0.6-4
ii  libmotif-common  2.3.8-3
ii  libpng16-16      1.6.37-3
ii  libx11-6         2:1.7.2-1
ii  libxext6         2:1.3.3-1.1
ii  libxft2          2.3.2-2
ii  libxmu6          2:1.1.2-2+b3
ii  libxt6           1:1.2.0-1
ii  x11-common       1:7.7+22

libxm4 recommends no packages.

libxm4 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:34:19 +0100

Control: tags -1 debian

Peter,

Thanks for this.

> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email-masked]

As you have identified, this is almost certainly an upstream issue. Furthermore,
src:motif is not forked in Devuan and we use Debian's packages directly without
recompilation.

I am unable to get the upstream bug tracker[1] to open today. I don't see a
similar issue reported in Debian either. You would be better reporting this
issue upstream or to Debian. If you do, please add the url here so we can track
when it gets fixed.

Mark

[1]  http://bugs.motifzone.net/ (if I am trying the right one!)

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From: Peter Radisson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2025 12:21:56 +0200

> I am unable to get the upstream bug tracker[1] to open today. I don't see a

Same as me, seems down for a while now (may be dead ?).

> issue upstream or to Debian. If you do, please add the url here so we can track

url= [email-masked] ?