On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:26:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> #261319 dhcp-client > >> Behavior with regards to /etc/resolv.conf is documented (although > >> not in the most obvious location), and the package provides an > >> (undocumented) way of working around it. The documentation could > >> be improved, but replacing /etc/resolv.conf is a common problem > >> with DHCP clients and doesn't warrant removing the package. > > I agree that this is not RC. Whether it's serious is perhaps debatable; > > but given that this is a general, pre-existing problem, if you feel that > > downgrading it is not appropriate, feel free to tag it sarge-ignore. > Personally, I would turn it into a documentation bug and downgrade it to > important, but it feels to me like the sort of call that the maintainer > should make. I'm not very sure yet how many changes I should be making to > other people's bugs; so far, I've not done anything other than add patch > tags. Generally, you'll find that maintainers don't object to having their bugs touched as long as a) you're right, and b) you let them know what's going on. It's particularly rare to have a maintainer get upset about someone downgrading a bug for them. ;) (Even if they might disagree and upgrade it again.) > >> #239326 freewrl > >> There is a packaging problem here, in that what is installed as the > >> freewrl binary isn't the actual binary. However, there are deeper > >> problems than that, as the binary segfaults immediately if built out > >> of the source tree and then run. gdb wasn't helpful (to me at least). > > Does this bug affect the version of the package in sarge? (The bug is > > tagged "sid", and the version of the package in sid isn't progressing to > > sarge any time soon.) > Yup, unfortunately: > windlord:~> dpkg -l freewrl > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) > ||/ Name Version Description > +++-==============-==============-============================================ > ii freewrl 0.29-1.1 vrml browser and netscape plugin > windlord:~> freewrl > Segmentation fault > It dies in a different place, so it may or may not be exactly the same > bug, but it looks like it dies deep inside dynamically loaded Perl modules > with a corrupted stack. Ok, between that at the age of the RC bugs that *are* open, I think that's sufficient grounds for removal. Hinted. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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