Re: Bug#692569: xserver-xorg-video-geode: some GTK widgets would randomly display unreadable "smeared" text labels
2012/11/7 Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>:
> reassign 692569 xserver-xorg-video-geode
> found 692569 2.11.13-3
> clone 692569 -1
> retitle 692569 xserver-xorg-video-geode: some GTK widgets would randomly
> display unreadable "smeared" text labels
> reassign -1 release.debian.org
> severity -1 normal
> user release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> usertag -1 unblock
> thanks
>
>
> On 07.11.2012 16:36, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>>
>> 2012/11/7 guenter <guenter@zamia.org>:
>>>
>>> Package: xserver-xorg-video-geode
>>>
>>> Anyway, upgrading to
>>>
>>> xserver-xorg-video-geode_2.11.13-7
>>>
>>> from unstable/sid fixed the problem permanently for me. Please consider
>>> using this revision in Debian 7 ?
>>
>>
>> Reassigning this bug to release.debian.org and requesting the Release
>> Team's permission.
>
>
> That's not how to file an unblock request. :-( #692569 relates to your
> package and needs to stay there. I've reassigned it back and cloned a copy
> for release.d.o, but that's still a bit of a stretch.
Thanks for cloning the bug!
I'm not sure how useful it is to keep the original bug attached to the
package, though, as it's essentially reporting a resolved state,
rather than a new bug.
> Please follow-up to the cloned bug including the information requested in
> the freeze policy / reportbug template - at the very minimum a full source
> debdiff between the current wheezy version and the version you're requesting
> an unblock for.
Noted. If you could point me to the number of the cloned bug, I'll
gladly continue the procedure there. :)
[ It might be useful for the BTS to automatically add the maintainer
of whichever package is concerned by an unblock request in the loop,
since it might have been filed by someone else. Right now, the
maintainer might not even be aware of such a request, since the BTS
only mails the maintainer of "package" release.debian.org ]
> From a very quick look, I suspect that debdiff will actually fail to mail it
> to the mailing list, due to the presence of
>
> patches/0003-Whitespace-cleanup-using-.-modular-x-indent.sh.patch
> |37926 ++++++++++
Right, this was pulled from our upstream Git, since it's needed to
apply later fixes. While it *is* a huge diff, it's essentially
harmless, since the pretty-printing was performed with an X release
macro.
> That doesn't look hugely appropriate for an update to a package during
> freeze. Please strip it from the debdiff when sending it, but mention that
> you've done so.
Right and seeing what happened with python-apt, I'm starting to think
that debdiff's are best attached to the bug itself and merely
mentioned in the debian-release thread, so as to avoid clogging the
mailing list. :)
Thanks for your help!
Regards,
Martin-Éric
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