severity 497363 serious thanks Hi,
This zombie issue with facter/puppet should be considered an RC bug
and an update to facter 1.5.1 should be done with a request to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for a release exception.
The justification is that this release of facter causes a pretty
severe zombie problem, resulting in puppet to break (effectively it
stops responding and memory usage accumulates). The only way to get
puppet back is to login to every machine and kill it and restart
it. This gets old fast.
I would be surprised if people disagreed with me that this violated
the following two release criteria[0]:
* makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system)
break
* makes the package in question unusable or mostly so
The following release criteria, if I were maintainer, would also be
one that I would apply:
* in the maintainer's opinion, makes the package unsuitable
for release
As the person who uploaded 1.5 as a NMU, I would be happy to NMU 1.5.1
to fix these issues and request the release exception. Please contact
me right away if you would prefer that I not do this.
Micah
0. http://release.debian.org/lenny/rc_policy.txt
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