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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] Critical bug, but no response!!
From:       Buchan Milne <bgmilne () cae ! co ! za>
Date:       2003-05-04 9:59:27
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On Sat, 3 May 2003, Vincent Danen wrote:

> > > Why is no-one even acknowledging  a critical bug,
> > 
> > I don't agree it's a critical bug. Sure, it's irritating, but it's better 
> > than having your network authentication database inaccessible after an 
> > upgrade (which required recompiling with the right options to fix before 
> > the update). Anything that can be fixed without a compile can't be that 
> > bad.
> 
> No doubt.  I hardly thing this qualifies as critical.  For one, this is the
> first I've heard of this problem, and only one person has complained.  Now,
> if there was a general outcry on cooker or expert about the hundreds of
> people with this problem, that's a different story.
> 

Vince, I have answered this question myself probably about 5 or 6 times in 
the past 6 months or so, on various lists (samba, local LUG etc), but 
no-one who asked it thought it was "critical". I mean, the person who set 
up the box can just log in as root on a console, killall kscreensaver, 
then read /var/log/auth.log, and it's pretty obvious from there how to fix 
it.

But it would be nice to have it fixed, so that all the authentication 
methods work flawlessly. But then it would also be nice to have the 
authentication dialog available after install ... and I am not sure which 
one would be less effort to get done :-(.

> This is the more logical thing to do.  An actual fix would be worthwhile if
> we were updating kdebase for something else.  Since we're not, an errata
> makes more sense.  Obviously, Laurent will have to take care of this when he
> gets back (for cooker).
> 

There really is a problem with the handling of KDE bugs IMHO. Can some 
arrangement not be made to have someone else available to fix the trivial 
but irritiating bugs in the KDE packages? Is there not someone on cooker 
with the ability, interest and time to do this? I am lacking at least the 
last one ...

> > BTW, it exists all the way back to 8.2 at least, so you can test it easily 
> > with your new LDAP setup.
> 
> That implies that I'll be firing up KDE... that very seldom happens.  =)
> 

I was going to say something like that knowing Vince ... maybe running 
kscreensaver from inside WindowMaker would work?

Regards,
Buchan

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