Package: valknut Version: 0.3.7-2 Severity: important
Hi! I've experienced strong instability with the official package. When I saw that they where important patches, such as the 'optimized hash', I decided to recompile an orig release from upstream, and the instability just did not reappear.. I feel it important that a debian package is far less stable than upstream original application: it will lead to many many false bug report to upstream, and dismiss a lot of potential users.. Then I would recommend that at first the name of top windows would mention the debian custom release like valknut 0.3.7 debian. Also, there is an auto feed to upstream when the application crashes, and you should make sure that upstream is able to seperate from debian or non debian patched package, or even disable it. See cdrecord for instance: "Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a03 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Joerg Schilling NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version." But, it seems that the good behaviour for such important patch would be to submit it upstream and wait until it has been tested before applying it to the application.. Kind regards, Romain -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.1-bogue Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages valknut depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.2-10 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an pn libdc0c2 <none> (no description available) ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-2 GCC support library ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.5-1 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System Session Management ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7g-5 SSL shared libraries ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxml2 2.6.22-1 GNOME XML library ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-6 compression library - runtime valknut recommends no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]