This one time, at band camp, Francesco Poli said: > On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:57:03 +0000 Stephen Gran wrote: > > > This one time, at band camp, Francesco Poli said: > [...] > > > Stephen, what do you think? Should this bug be downgraded to > > > important? Could you please help Andreas in solving his problem? > > > > I think that a package that non-deterministically doesn't work > > probably doesn't belong in a stable release. > > Wait, who said that the bug shows up non-deterministically?
The fact that "this user sees this behavior and that user doesn't" it sort of the definition? This isn't the first report I've had, although it is the only BTS report. I've also managed to reproduce it once in enlightenment, and then failed to reproduce it the next time I tried. > This situation does not look like the definition of a severity 'grave' > bug: the bug does not seem to make the package unusable or mostly so. > I would say the severity of this bug is more like 'important' or even > 'normal'. I am under the impression that there is probably some serious misbehavior in the package. It works for some people perfectly fine, but may accidentally go wrong and kill your kittens. I think we have different definitions of what should go in a stable release. If this was more important than a leaf package of relatively niche interest, I would of course invest more time and effort in figuring out what was going wrong. Since it is just an edge package with a relatively low popcon score, it seems to me my effort is better spent elsewhere, and my feeling is that, in the meantime, software that only sometimes works doesn't belong in a stable release. If you want to look after it, you can of course make different decisions about where your time is best spent and what you want to support through a release cycle (and what quality of software is useful to release in Debian in general). > > I unfortunately don't have enough knowledge about the X api to make > > any good guesses as to what the problem might be. > > I think there are tags for this kind of situation (e.g.: "help"). I believe you're allowed to tag the bug report that way if you want .. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sg...@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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