On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 15:18 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:55:40PM +0100, Bart Martens wrote: > > Hi Debian-Release, > > > Package io-stringy version 2.110-2 is in unstable. The differences with > > testing are: > > > * New maintainer. Closes: #399676. > > * lib/IO/AtomicFile.pm: Check "close" exit code. Closes: #409947. Patch by > > Eduardo Pérez Ureta <edpeur@gmail.com>, thanks. RC bug, urgency=medium. > > In fact, this is not an RC bug because I downgraded it. The fix was packaged before the severity was downgraded. > > I don't see any real rationale in the bug report for this being a grave bug > in the first place. How is a call to close *failing*, that not checking its > return value could be such a significant problem? I agree that "grave" is a bit too severe. Anyway, the added error checking seems OK to me, so this fix feels safe. I accept any choice you make about whether or not to add this fix to etch.
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