Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

[Ron <ron@debian.org>]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 04:55:06PM +0000, Wookey wrote:
> On 2016-10-25 07:29 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > 
> > FWIW, it worked fine in a test run I just did (on linux-4.9 rc 1), and
> > last time I used it, it also worked fine with the emacs integration, so
> > I don't recognise the crying from the rooftops about it being broken in
> > Debian.
> 
> It seems that it depends on the kernel source tree in use.

Just to clarify this here based on the details you provided when you
later reported https://bugs.debian.org/844356, it turns out that it
apparently doesn't depend on the kernel source tree or its version
as such - what you saw happens when the source tree is polluted with
infinite symlink loops, apparently due to a broken build script in
this case.

Which is something lots of things will choke on, and there is an easy
workaround which most people should be using anyway if they are using
this on codebases of this size, to skip uselessly indexing the bulk of
the build tree where there is no source you want tags for.

But thanks for the good report in that bug about _what_ really went
wrong for you there.  This is useful information.


> ( I also found 844330 in the process, which is just a packaging update issue )

And thanks for the pointers to what changed with the emacs policy in
this one too.  That one was only evident if you actually had emacs
installed (which I don't), and which nobody else had so far reported.
It should be fixed in sid now though.

Good bug reports are the foundation for getting things fixed, so
thanks for setting a good example there.

  Cheers,
  Ron