Bug#735261: mutiple upstream bugs

2015-01-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Shai Berger wrote: On Friday 16 January 2015 01:45:53 Michael Gilbert wrote: However, the problem reported here is not a usability problem. If a mail client losing record of which mails have been read and which haven't isn't non-serious data loss, I can't

Bug#735261: mutiple upstream bugs

2015-01-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Shai Berger wrote: I am asking about serious vs. non-serious because those are the terms used by reportbug (non-serious data loss is a reason to mark a bug grave). Both grave and critical refer to actual data loss. Using the term serious isn't particularly

Bug#735261: mutiple upstream bugs

2015-01-18 Thread Shai Berger
On Monday 19 January 2015 00:54:41 Michael Gilbert wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Shai Berger wrote: I am asking about serious vs. non-serious because those are the terms used by reportbug (non-serious data loss is a reason to mark a bug grave). Both grave and critical refer to

Bug#735261: mutiple upstream bugs

2015-01-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Shai Berger wrote: Both grave and critical refer to actual data loss. Using the term serious isn't particularly useful since that falls outside those two categories anyway. Again, you're being tautological, repeating your terms rather than defining them.

Bug#735261: mutiple upstream bugs

2015-01-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Shai Berger s...@platonix.com wrote: So, the bits marking messages as read or unread are not data? What, pray tell, are they? Easily recreatable bit flags. So data isn't lost if it is easily recreatable? Really? No. By that argument, there really

Bug#735261: mutiple upstream bugs

2015-01-18 Thread Shai Berger
On Sunday 18 January 2015 23:51:01 Michael Gilbert wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Shai Berger s...@platonix.com wrote: Those easily recreatable bits represent a significant part of my mail workflow. Almost any data can be recreated by repeating the work that created it. Your claims

Bug#735261: mutiple upstream bugs

2015-01-18 Thread Shai Berger
On Sunday 18 January 2015 21:46:52 Michael Gilbert wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Shai Berger wrote: On Friday 16 January 2015 01:45:53 Michael Gilbert wrote: However, the problem reported here is not a usability problem. If a mail client losing record of which mails have been

Bug#735261: mutiple upstream bugs

2015-01-16 Thread Shai Berger
On Friday 16 January 2015 01:45:53 Michael Gilbert wrote: However, the problem reported here is not a usability problem. If a mail client losing record of which mails have been read and which haven't isn't non-serious data loss, I can't tell what is. Actual data loss. So, the bits

Bug#735261: mutiple upstream bugs

2015-01-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
However, the problem reported here is not a usability problem. If a mail client losing record of which mails have been read and which haven't isn't non-serious data loss, I can't tell what is. Actual data loss. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#735261: mutiple upstream bugs

2015-01-14 Thread Shai Berger
Hi Michael, On Wednesday 14 January 2015 04:45:16 Michael Gilbert wrote: This is a usability problem, so it doesn't really qualify as release critical. Debian developers get to call the severity of bugs in general, and the criticality for a specific release in particular. However, the

Bug#735261: mutiple upstream bugs

2015-01-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
control: severity -1 important It may sound cynical, but my advice would be that if you're hit with this, change mail clients :/ In the context of freeze/release, I'd suggest to tag this jessie-ignore, or even forever-ignore. This is a usability problem, so it doesn't really qualify as

Bug#735261: mutiple upstream bugs

2014-12-19 Thread Alex Goebel
These kinds of problems have plagued kmail for many, many years, dating back to the beginnings of kmail2 (at least). As we can see from the numerous upstream bugs, there is also no shortage of reports (IIRC, I filed one myself for fake duplicates years ago). Perhaps upstream doesn't care, or

Bug#735261: mutiple upstream bugs

2014-12-13 Thread Sandro Knauß
Hey, it is hard to descide witch upstream bug matches best: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276856 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288208 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278737 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294074 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285063 I think the