Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2003 15:08 schrieb Riku Voipio: > > The bug there is closed and kgpgcertmanager still _always_ crashes. So, > > it is not obvious if this is a packaging or upstream problem. Maybe you > > can tell, I cannot. > > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59762 > > This appears to be the same bug, and for some weird reason this has been > marked invalid/closed. They seem to suggest that it is a cryptlug bug. If an app crashes, the app is broken. End of discussion :) If the app uses a lib that crashes itself, it is also the apps developer rsponsibility to solve the problem with the libs' developer and not tell the user to do so. > anyway, kmail encryption features are kinda useless without > pinentry/gpg-agent in sid... Agreed, I put some packages for that online that work alright for me in sarge. > > I would then have to file the bug upstream against kmail? kgpgcertmanager > > does not even depend on kmail. And now? > > I've never used kgpgcertmanager anywhere else than via the kmail menus, so > the kmail/encryption target would be natural target for me... > kgpgcertmanager could recommend atleast kmail as there is not much use > for it without it. Yes, how to manually start it is not even documented anywhere but probably source code :-(( What a valid value for "ModuleName"? Would it be that for a GUI app to solve such things with a small dialog, especially when being a KDE application? Grade for usability so far: failed. > > BTW: Is there any way to get the upstream maintainer email address or URL > > without downloading the source package? > > the copyright file or google search... however, most upstream authors do > not wish to be contacted directly to private email. Then why releasing the program at all. Either I am interested in it to proper work elsewhere, too, or I shouldn't release it. HS -- Mein GPG-Key ist auf meiner Homepage verfügbar: http://www.hendrik-sattler.de oder über pgp.net PingoS - Linux-User helfen Schulen: http://www.pingos.org
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