Bug#425071: suggested resolution

2007-06-11 Thread Peter Moulder
The above-referenced libboost issue #424038 may take a while to be resolved, and it isn't clear that -lboost_regex will come back once it has been resolved. However, we don't need to wait to resolve the FTBFS bug. We can restore the existing behaviour by changing the link from -lboost_regex to -l

Bug#385732: downgrade severity?

2006-09-09 Thread Peter Moulder
Can this bug's title be changed to "Source package contains useless files", and accordingly its severity be reduced to minor or wishlist ? pjrm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#370600: Alternative fix for the failure to compile problem

2006-06-06 Thread Peter Moulder
Passing through `expand -t 4' and then appending a colon to the `if' condition of line 371 fixes the problem better than the suggested "noisy" patch. Of course, "where there are bugs, there are more bugs": the fact that it contained even compile errors shows that the original coder hadn't tested

Bug#333768: pls reduce severity; pls test with 0.43

2005-11-29 Thread Peter Moulder
A "grave" bug is one serious enough to prevent the release of the package. The description of this priority (in bug-maint-info.txt) does mention "data loss" as a possible justification for marking a bug as grave, but the data loss described in this bug report (qualified as "minor" in the submitter

Bug#297217: the proposed patch looks wrong

2005-08-11 Thread Peter Moulder
Messages on the mailing list suggest that gcc-4 presents a number of problems. It may be that the best fix is to force CC=gcc-3.3 until we have a corrected upstream version. The above-proposed patch of making the non-gnuc version unconditional looks wrong in light of the following comment immedia