On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 21:25 +0100, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > tags 458884 +pending > thanks > > Hello, > > > Was this comment supposed to go to another package? > > Yes, the comment was meant for libqt4-dev and reposted there (Cmp. > #458558). Since that bug won't be fixed I had to work around the bug. > Only two days ago I have uploaded a new version of packagesearch > containing a fix to my sponsor, who I hope will upload it to the archive > soon. I haven't seen any newer versions. Any news?
On the other hand, apt and friends seem to have a bunch of RC bugs, so keeping everything frozen may be saving me some troubles anyway. > > > > packagesearch has been crashing at the drop of a hat for me for months > > (basically, whenever I leave it up for awhile and then come back to it). > > This is known, and unfortunately not easy to fix. The problem is, that > the backend library (libept-dev) switched from working on a copy of the > apt-database to working on the database itself. However, it does not > handle it gracefully, if the package database changes (i.e. it causes a > crash). So packagesearch crashes whenever you do something after the > database has changed. I was wondering if this was the case. I'm quite certain it crashed even when I didn't do anything I thought would change the database (i.e., aptitude update, install or remove packages). > A bug is open against libept-dev (#442841) and I > am periodically nagging Enrico to fix this bug - which would allow for > packagesearch to become stable again. > > > > Recently aptitude has become very insistent about giving it the boot, > > probably because of an upgrade to the apt tools. > > This should be solved with the new upload. > > Best regards and thanks for sticking with packagesearch > > Benjamin > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
