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On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 23:55:51 +0000 Stephen Gran wrote: > 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 does not necessarily stem from a lack of determinism: the two users may use the package in different ways and/or environments. What seems to be non-deterministic, may well be deterministically caused by different variable values that weren't taken into account! Or otherwise it could really be non-deterministic, of course... > 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. As I said, I use root-tail with Fluxbox and I know other people that use it similarly. [...] > 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. Any suggested alternative package to be used as a replacement? My typical use of root-tail is displaying some differently-colored log file tails on the root window with tiny fonts, so that I keep an eye on them. Are there other packages that can fit this task? [...] > > > 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 .. OK, the above command should add the tag for you. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/progs/scripts/pdebuild-hooks.html Need some pdebuild hook scripts? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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