On Monday 25 May 2009 07:19:33 you wrote: > severity 530150 normal > thanks > > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 01:29:30AM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Package: nis > > Severity: important > > Version: 3.17-22 > > User: [email protected] > > Usertags: goal-dash > > When reporting these bugs I'd suggest looking at the issue being > reported and ensuring that the severity set is about what the severity > would be if the relevant functionality completely broke - in this case > the problem is in a utility used by a vanishingly small proportion of > users so the bug would never be release critical.
I didn't know what exactly the file does nor how it is used, but: a) it is a file in /usr/lib which means it is very likely that it is executed by another program of the package, and might result in weird errors and not easy to detect by the user b) using $[] is even deprecated in bash, and its usage on shells that don't understand it results in that expression being used as any other string, which may cause weird errors c) it is humanly impossible to verify the usage and pourpose of every affected file of every affected package (of the ~660 with some sort of bashism) within a reasonably short period of time. d) and it is easier and faster to fix it than to reply to the bug report :) Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
