On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 11:54:44AM +0100, Romain Francoise wrote: > Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes: > >> wmbubble: #207377 (or someone takes the patch and makes an NMU..) > > Downgrading this; someone seems to have upgraded it without > > communicating with the maintainer, and there's no real indication in the > > report that the bug actually has a significant impact on usability, 2.6 > > kernel or not. Still an NMU candidate, though, IMHO. > I upgraded this one; I think it deserves "serious" severity since it > makes wmbubble die after a few seconds with "Floating point exception" > when running a 2.6 kernel. As I said in the message to control, I guess > most users will be running a 2.6 kernel during Sarge's lifetime. > The solution to this problem is not to NMU with the patch found in > #207377 but to update the package to version 1.41 which has upstream > support for Linux 2.6 (not just CPU counters), see #220643. I had > several mail exchanges and IRC conversations with the maintainer who > promised several times to do so, but he seems to have real-life problems > right now and never got around to doing it. Note that he didn't > followup to any of the bugs opened against wmbubble at the moment. Ok, thanks for the info. I agree that this bug should be considered RC then. Are you yourself planning to NMU the package to the new upstream version, if the maintainer is not? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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