Re: Bug#402179: tar: FTBFS: race condition in test-suite
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 02:46:42PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote:
>
> As I've stated before, I'm not sure that fixing this bug for etch is
> really useful. Of course, if there's a reason to update the tar in etch
> for a security bug or something similar, fixing this too would make good
> sense. But since it's only a race condition in the regression suite and
> makes no difference to the tar binary itself, and the tar package in
> etch is already built for all relevant release architectures, taking the
> risk of changing the tar package just to fix this isn't obviously
> worthwhile to me.
I agree for the most part. But if you think this bug shouldn't be fixed
for etch, I think it either needs to be marked as non release critical
or it should be tagged etch-ignore.
I've CC'd the release team, to get their input on it.
Anyway, the only reason I see that we want to fix it in etch now is that
in case we later want a new version of tar in etch we don't get hit by
the problem.
Kurt
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