severity 510325 grave
thanks
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 01:26:13AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Axel Beckert <a...@deuxchevaux.org> (31/12/2008):
> > On my T61 with testing and selected unstable applications, debreaper
> > (default configuration, none of the variables in
> > /usr/share/doc/debreaper/README are set) never stops with its Knight
> > Rider like "progress" bar, even on crashes of small programs like
> > xosview (but also on big ones like liferea). I have to press "cancel"
> > to close the debreaper window. Waited already several times for at
> > least 15min, but nothing happened.
>
> looking at the contents of this package, one can remark that:
> | $ LANG=C dpkg -L debreaper|grep \\.orig
> | package diverts others to: /usr/lib/libgnomeui-0/gnome_segv2.orig
Yeah, sure. It works by replaces GNOME's segfault handler. Main
purpose of this package is to direct crashes towards the Debian BTS
instead of GNOME's Bugzilla.
> so I guess that debreaper only works with applications that were
> compiled against libgnomeui, which isn't the case of either xosview
> or liferea.
Even if it were so: why does it then get called for other
applications? As I said, I use the default configuration. If it should
be called only for some applications' crashes, than the package should
take care of that fact instead of going into an endless loop.
Anyway, IIRC I also had the same problem with gnome-panel which
depends on libgnomeui.
> The description might mention that fact, I assume.
The description does not mention anything in that direction. In
contrary: It suggests to be valid for all applications in a X session:
"When an application crashes in a running X session, it will spawn the
user's configured email client with a pre-filled bug report that is
ready to send."
I still insist that this package fails completely in doing this in my
environment (and probably many others since I don't see what should be
so special here) and therefore reset the severity to grave. And since
the package is not in Lenny, this RC level bug doesn't delay Lenny.
Regards, Axel
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