[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#982262: vrrender: fails to start, missing directory

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Flavien,

On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 07:22:39AM +0100, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> Thank you for the explanation. Sorry I wasn't aware we were in deep freeze.

No problem.
 
> Actually I think this is a critical bug because the vrrender application
> doesn't launch at all. So the package is useless without the fix.

Sounds sensible.

> The fix is still valid for the previous version, so I can propose you to
> revert everything I've done, and create a new patch version 20.2.0-2 to only
> fix the bug. Would that sound ok for you ?

Yes, this seems to be the right procedure.

> I could easily redo the update to
> 20.3 later after the release.

Yes.

> If yes, for the git repository, would you prefer that I rewrite the history
> with a push -f on all branches ? Or should I add revert commits on all three
> branches ? Or can I keep upstream and pristine tar as they are and only add
> a revert commit on the master branch ?

At least the upstream branch needs to match the content of master

> Thank you !

You are welcome.  BTW, I recommend to read

   https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/

which is a pretty low volume list but provides exactly the information
about freezes and other very relevant things when maintaining Debian
packages.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

> Cheers,
> 
> Le 17/03/2021 à 05:57, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> > Hi Flavien,
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 11:59:21PM +0100, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> > > I updated Sight to 20.3 and added a patch to fix this bug as well. VRRender
> > > launches well for me now.
> > May be you are not comfortable with the freeze policy.  We are currently
> > in deep freeze.  This means:
> >    * no new upstream versions
> >    * only minimum fixes for release critical bugs
> >    * uploads to unstable with other changes are discouraged to enable
> >      small changes uploads for potential RC bugs
> > 
> > > Could you please upload the changes if everything looks ok for you ?
> > There are three options:
> > 
> >    1. I can upload your changes to experimental - but this is probably
> >       not really what you want.
> >    2. We can simply wait to fix this issue until Debian 11 is released
> >       and your changes are targeting to the next release
> >    3. The severity of the VRRender bug will be bumped to serious (which
> >       is release critical.  Than we need to revert the upstream version
> >       bump and apply only the said bug.
> > 
> > I have no idea what option you and the bug reporter might prefer.
> > 
> > > Thank you.
> > Thank you for your work anyway
> > 
> >       Andreas.
> > 
> > > Kind regards,
> > > 
> > > Le 14/02/2021 à 10:25, Flavien Bridault a écrit :
> > > > Hi Andreas,
> > > > 
> > > > I'll have a look, thanks for notifying me.
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > 
> > > > Le 08/02/2021 à 09:52, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> > > > > Hi Flavien,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I think the directory in question should be /usr/share/sight.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Could you please have a look?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Kind regards
> > > > > 
> > > > >        Andreas.
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 10:49:15PM +0100, Andrea Borgia wrote:
> > > > > > Package: vrrender
> > > > > > Version: 20.2.0-1
> > > > > > Severity: normal
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Dear Maintainer,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > installing with "sudo apt install vrrender", it fails to start with this error:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > [3][00:00:00.001253][warning] [RuntimeException.cpp:42] '/usr/lib/share/sight': not a directory.
> > > > > > [4][00:00:00.001322][warning] [RuntimeException.cpp:42] Error while adding modules. '/usr/lib/share/sight': not a directory.
> > > > > > terminate called after throwing an instance of 'fwRuntime::RuntimeException'
> > > > > >     what():  Error while adding modules. '/usr/lib/share/sight': not a directory.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > note: /usr/share/sight exists, though.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > -- System Information:
> > > > > > Debian Release: bullseye/sid
> > > > > >     APT prefers stable-updates
> > > > > >     APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> > > > > > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> > > > > > Foreign Architectures: i386
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
> > > > > > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> > > > > > Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
> > > > > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> > > > > > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> > > > > > LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Versions of packages vrrender depends on:
> > > > > > ii  libsight  20.2.0-1
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > vrrender recommends no packages.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > vrrender suggests no packages.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > -- no debconf information
> > > > > > 
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> > > > Flavien BRIDAULT-LOUCHEZ
> > > > *Dr. Flavien BRIDAULT*
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> > > > 
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> Flavien BRIDAULT-LOUCHEZ
> *Dr. Flavien BRIDAULT*
> Director of Software Development
> IRCAD France & IRCAD Africa
> 
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