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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] Critical bug, but no response!!
From:       Vincent Danen <vdanen () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2003-05-06 0:44:55
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On Mon May 05, 2003 at 04:03:24PM +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 ...

I don't disagree.  I completely understand where you're coming from.

> > 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.

No problem.

> > > 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

The only thing I was given the fix for was what was done in the updates
(ps2pdf I think).

Laurent, can you take a look at these and resolve them?  If they're deemed
not really critical, please just make sure they're fixed in cooker.  But if
they're important for 9.1, they really should be taken care of.

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

Undoutably.

> 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=&pr \
> oduct=kdebase&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssub \
> str&bug_file_loc=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_stat \
> us=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=s \
> ubstring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substrin \
> g&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chf \
> ieldvalue=&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 ...

Ummm...  I'm not fixing any of these.  To me, bugs in KDE are not critical,
and I don't know enough to attempt to fix them.  That's what maintainers are
for.  They can fix them, I'll do the rest (rebuild, test, release).

The only reason I got as involved in OpenLDAP as I did is that I probably
know it best out of anyone at mandrakesoft, and Florin was ill.  For the
rest, the maintainers should be maintaining ther packages.

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