QA responsible for help in fixing bugs?
Hi again
Just another thought about qa: Should we make it the official address
to send help requests from developers? I did not see many of this on
-devel so I think it would be a good thing because
a) This messages often stay unanswered on -devel and
b) we have the people with the knowledge to help (at least I think so :)
Okay, here is such a message (I will look at it myself when I am back
from university):
----- Forwarded message from Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org> -----
To: Debian devel mailinglist <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: [Georg Bauer <gb@hugo.westfalen.de>] Bug#34299: midentd: reverse in procstr on PPC is a bad idea
From: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
Date: 20 Apr 1999 17:32:11 +0200
I really need help to solve this. First of, I don't really undertand
the problem (technically, that is), secondly, I don't have any means
of trying a fix... I have a patch I _THINK_ would fix the problem,
but i don't know anyone with a PPC w/ masquerading... (powerpc.debian.org
don't have masquerading compiled in).
So if someone with (good ?) perl knowledge can take a look at this, I
would be great full....
Subject: Bug#34299: midentd: reverse in procstr on PPC is a bad idea
Resent-CC: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
Resent-Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 21:03:01 GMT
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 21:57:17 +0100
From: Georg Bauer <gb@hugo.westfalen.de>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Message-Id: <E10KTYy-0000vZ-00@goggle.westfalen.de>
Package: midentd
Version: 1.4-2
Due to different endianess between Intel and PPC, midentd only works right
on one of both platforms in it's current form. At least the PPC version is
broken in the procstr sub, as there the IPs are reversed before unpacked.
Throw out the unpack and the lookup works.
- - System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux jill 2.2.1 #101 Fri Feb 5 16:17:12 EST 1999 ppc unknown
Versions of the packages midentd depends on:
ii netbase 3.11-4 Basic TCP/IP networking binaries
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