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Re: Freeze exception: net6, obby, gobby



Hi Philipp,

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 08:39:12PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
> could you please grant net6, obby and gobby a freeze exception? The uploads
> of net6 and obby allow Gobby to be used with kernels without IPv6
> support (i.e. self-compiled ones or kernels provided by hosting facilities).
> Furthermore invalid input on the connection (i.e. send by a hostile
> server) does no longer cause an exception propagating to the
> application, which did terminate Gobby.

--- net6-1.3.1/debian/rules
+++ net6-1.3.1/debian/rules
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
+#!/usr/bin/make -f
 # -*- makefile -*-

 # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.

Um, doubled interpreter line?

> The IPv6 patch added a new default parameter. Tests of mine shows that
> it was ABI- and API-compatible, but I guess you judge that better than I
> could.

Ok, then why have you bumped the shlibs in this version? I guess the 'fatal'
class is a new exported class?

> obby changes:

>    * Adopt dpatch:
>         - Add a patch to retry IPv6 if it's unavailable.

Obby also includes changes to the dependencies of libobby-0.4-dev.  Why does
the libnet6-1.3-dev dependency need to change so frequently?  If it actually
needs to be changed so often, doesn't that mean the dependency will be wrong
on a simple rebuild of the package?

Anyway, I'm not sure that 'retry' is the correct solution here, but I don't
have any evidence to the contrary, so I've unblocked both of these.

> gobby changes:
>    * Fix mime type mapping.
>    * Lack of avahi-daemon now fails silently instead of a verbose message
>      confusing the user. Zeroconf is a `nice to have' but in no means
>      required.

I don't see that a freeze exception is justified here.

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Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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