On Fri 2013-03-15 01:08:00 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Ugh, this is a bad result, but i don't think the bug is in 0.8.1 -- the > crashing bug is in the earlier version (0.8-2), and one of the changes > in 0.8.1 is to improve the behavior when such an upgrade is happening > (as well as to make it impossible for a bug in the msva or the libraries > it depends upon to kill your X session). > > I'd be happy to hear suggestions for how to resolve this, but i'm not > sure what to do.
Here's a proposal: include a NEWS file in 0.8.1 that suggests that the
user probably doesn't want to accept the old agent's prompt to be
reloaded due to incompatibilities between the perl modules that have
changed across the system upgrade.
Newer implementations don't prompt for this restart by default, and also
are more safe in their consequences when crashing: an agent crash
disables agent functionality, but doesn't terminate the running X11
session.
Would this be sufficient to reduce the severity of 682353 to "important"
?
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