Re: Bug reports in Ubuntu

2008-11-27 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 19:21:46 Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you think it is severe enough to be put forward for lenny? I'm not sure. The patch looks straight-forward enough, so perhaps the release team would approve

Re: Bug reports in Ubuntu

2008-11-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you think it is severe enough to be put forward for lenny? I'm not sure. The patch looks straight-forward enough, so perhaps the release team would approve it. PS: it is a good idea to document in your patches why

Bug reports in Ubuntu

2008-11-24 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
Dear mentors I had a quick look in the list archives but couldn't find an answer, so perhaps you can help. My adopted package gxemul has a bug in Ubuntu[1] (seg fault on command line parameters) which reproduces in the current Debian package. It has been fixed recently in upstream's CVS so I

Re: Bug reports in Ubuntu

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My adopted package gxemul has a bug in Ubuntu[1] (seg fault on command line parameters) which reproduces in the current Debian package. It has been fixed recently in upstream's CVS so I plan to add a patch for the

Re: Bug reports in Ubuntu

2008-11-24 Thread Andreas Wenning
On Monday 24 November 2008 10:13:23 Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My adopted package gxemul has a bug in Ubuntu[1] (seg fault on command line parameters) which reproduces in the current Debian package. It has been fixed

Re: Bug reports in Ubuntu

2008-11-24 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 06:13:23PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: Sounds fine. Be sure to prepare an upload for testing-proposed-updates if you want to add the patch to lenny and the release team are likely to approve the patch, since your package is not in sync between lenny sid. Can you advise

Re: Bug reports in Ubuntu

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you advise further or point me to somewhere to find out more? I've never used testing-proposed-updates, but it would be a good thing to learn about. http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#t-p-u

Re: Bug reports in Ubuntu

2008-11-24 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 08:07:45PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#t-p-u [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/09/msg0.html [2] Ok, I understand the theory according to [1]. But [2] states that bugs should be at severity