=?iso-8859-1?Q?Lo=EFc?= Minier writes... > Since you're a DD, I should trust your bug report more than average, > but frankly: filing a RELEASE CRITICAL bug for an improvement is not to > my taste.
According to http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities, serious is a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a "must" or "required" directive), or, in the package maintainer's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release. It crashes the browser losing all browser state data, how could it possibly be suitable for release? > > If you have the flash plugin installed and go to > > http://gamevideos.com/video/id/4282 > > Aha, so the Flash plugin causes crashes. Why don't you fix the Flash > plugin? > > > I suspect the problem is in the flash > > viewer, but it shouldn't cause the browser to crash. > > I don't consider it is possible to offer such a warranty for plugins > written in C/C++ and dlopen()ed by Firefox or XULRunner. This could > typically be done for plugins written in other langages, perhaps > Python, or C#, or JavaScript, but supporting such a functionality for > dlopen()ed code would require a fork() and I fail to imagine who would > want to fork() a process as large as a galeon process. Just because it's poorly designed doesn't mean it's not a bug. Despite the difficultly in fixing, I would argue it's at least normal severity. > I would have reassigned this bug to the Flash plugin -- would it have > had a source package in Debian -- but since I'm afraid it's not in > non-free, Yes that's unfortunate. > I will simply keep this request for enhancement in the BTS for > future reference and mark it + help. That sounds acceptable, but I still disagree with a severity of wishlist, this is a real bug. How about forwarding it upstream too? I suppose another option is blacklisting buggy plugins, but I'm not sure if that's better. > I was tempted to tag it wontfix, > but perhaps you can come with a patch and prove me wrong when I say > this would be overly complicated? No, I agree that it would be complicated. Please note that filing a bug is not a personal attack on the package maintainer. Your comments could be interpreted as hostile. > I suggest you stop using the proprietary plugin for now. gnash is a > free implementation and I think the specs of the Flash format have been > made public to some extents. I try all the existing free alternatives every few months and I will continue to do so. Unfortunately there are still some sites I want to use that they don't yet work with :( -- Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
