A few comments about the bug tracker saga... roundup is a really cool piece of software, but it seems that its developers don't really give a damn about backward compatibility and painless upgrades:
http://roundup.sourceforge.net/doc-0.8/upgrading.html (well, I can't really blame them since they've not reached a 1.0 release yet). Of course this policy interacts very badly with the automatic daily update of all the installed packages in the Debian machine hosting our bug-tracking server. A few months ago the installed version of roundup was upgraded from 0.7 to 0.8 and the bug tracker stopped working, since in the 0.8 tree the roundup developers have changed the configuration file name and format and dropped support for the bsddb backend. After I figured out what the problem was, I had to backup the existing BSD DB, migrate the DB to (py)SQLite using an old version of roundup, reinstall the tracker from scratch and change the configuration file. Since the old DB was never really used, I just thought I could simply discard the existing entries and start with a fresh, new and empty DB. After I received a few complaints, I realized this was a mistake, so I have just reloaded the old DB in the Wget bug tracker. Some of the items in the DB are old and should be closed. I am planning to do that in the next couple of days. From now on, I promise I will use the bug tracker in a more consistent way ;-) -- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem... Mauro Tortonesi http://www.tortonesi.com University of Ferrara - Dept. of Eng. http://www.ing.unife.it Institute for Human & Machine Cognition http://www.ihmc.us GNU Wget - HTTP/FTP file retrieval tool http://www.gnu.org/software/wget Deep Space 6 - IPv6 for Linux http://www.deepspace6.net Ferrara Linux User Group http://www.ferrara.linux.it
