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Re: Bug#225048: All my current hinting suggestions (includes XFree86)



On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:54:08AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Steve Langasek wrote:

> > > => remove dovecot/0.99.10.4-3
> > > #225048 (data loss).  I know this has been argued, but I still think it's
> > > not right to ship a package with a dataloss bug like this; your mileage may
> > > vary.
> >
> > My mileage doesn't vary.  Package also was not shipped with woody; I
> > don't see any reason to be lenient about letting another buggy imap
> > server into stable, we have some of those there already.

> Note there is only one user who thinks this package loses data.  I have
> kept the severity as grave because upstream agrees that this might be the
> case.  But I've heard nothing else on this from anyone.  Perhaps a
> severity downgrade is in order?

Er, if upstream agrees that there may be a data-lossage bug here, how
many users do you think have to notice it before it should be considered
RC?  How sure are you that this bug doesn't affect other folders, and
users just haven't noticed their mail is disappearing yet?

I thought upstream was supposedly working on fixing this, anyways?

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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