[Debconf-devel] Bug#413509: database communication does not work

[Frank Küster]

clone 413509 -1
severity -1 normal
retitle -1 libqt-perl: behaves badly when DESTROY hooks are called before anything was displayed
reassign -1 libqt-perl
submitter -1 Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org>
thanks

Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org> wrote:

> Frank Küster wrote:
>> By the way, you wrote earlier that there's a bug in libqt-perl(?) and
>> your fix is only a workaround - should this be reported separately?
>
> Well, I'd have to dig through the docs to make sure it's not doing
> something explicitly denied, and write a test case to be sure, but yes,
> I think it's probably a bug.

This is what Joey wrote earlier:

,----
| This bug occurs because dpkg-preconfigure forks and the subprocess
| exits, calling Qt's DESTROY hooks. Apparently Qt behaves badly if the
| DESTROY hooks are called before it actually displays anything. I think
| this is a bug in libqt-perl, but I've committed a workaround to svn.
`----

I'm cloning/reassigning this, so that it isn't forgotten.  I hope you
don't mind setting you as the submitter?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)