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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] Critical bug, but no response!!
From:       Buchan Milne <bgmilne () cae ! co ! za>
Date:       2003-05-05 13:52:17
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Vincent Danen wrote:
> On Sun May 04, 2003 at 11:59:27AM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:

> 
> So on various lists, you've answered the question once per month.  I guess
> all things considered, even if any of them did seem to think it was
> critical, the numbers would indicate otherwise.  =)

It's just frustrating doing a lot of work to get a feature to work
(winbind) to have some trivial problem stuff it all up and make it look
unprofessional ...

> 
> 
> > 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 :-(.
> 
> 
> Well, when kdebase is built next time, the fix should go in.  That's
what I
> would expect.  BTW, an errata is up regarding this.
> 

Thanks.


> > 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 ...
> 
> 
> Well, I don't know if there is anyone at mdk who can do this... I mean the
> obvious thing is for the KDE maintainer to fix this.  Filing reports on
> bugzilla is a good start.  If anyone feels there are bugs in KDE that
> haven't been fixed in a timely manner (and are fixable by the maintainer),
> then they should post a list of those bugs to the mailing list.

Here is a list of trivial bugs, most of which have fixes provided, which
were not fixed for 9.1:

1)"Filemanager superuser and kfmclient in GNOME":
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2981

2)"Konqueror (super user mode) doesn't use super user view profile"
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240

3)"Zip this file" doesn't work on Desktop."
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2948

This should have been fixed with the updated service-menu that was put
out for 9.1, whose bug was known long before release:
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3196

There are probably more, but that is what I got from a quick perusal of
my bugzilla mail folder.

And then there is this long-standing irritation, which is probably not
trivial to fix, but a major irritation:

4)"file views in konqueror in detailed mode don't respect double click
settings"
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982

> I don't
> know... I don't pay attention to anything that has to do with KDE unless
> it's a security issue.  I really don't know how bad or good the bug
handling
> for KDE issues are.

I've lost it now, but there was an easy summary of bugs by maintainer,
and "kde" or lmontel was quite high up there.

In the mean time, a search like this is informative:
 http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&pro \
duct=kdebase&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr \
&bug_file_loc=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=AS \
SIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substrin \
g&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2= \
&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=& \
cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=


I think you and Warly need to come to some agreement on permissible bug
levels for a release, otherwise you're going to end up having too many
bugfix updates to do. Ideally, that would include having any "critical"
bugs ...

Regards,
Buchan

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