Bug#191103: crash after replying to a ticket

[Rudolph Pereira <r.pereira@isu.usyd.edu.au>]

I too am experiencing the same problem, but at least in my case, I
cannot modify anything in request tracker (e.g even new requests cannot be
submitted)

After some investigation, it appears that a change in postgresql 7.3
(converting between null/empty values and (int)0 in pg_atoi) is
the cause of the problem - see
http://rt3.fsck.com/Ticket/Display.html?id=2143 and
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=rt-devel&m=104582491029719&w=2 as well
as the postgresql release notes. A subsequent version of
request-tracker has been released which addresses this problem, but it
is a later version than is available in sarge/sid.

I believe that this problem makes request-tracker unusable as it stands in
sarge/testing (this bug should probably be promoted to a serious issue,
but I'll leave that to the package maintainers/others). 
It would be good if a newer version could be packaged;
this would also close #186202

thanks