Bug#361805: bug-buddy: fails to update bug information and crashes afterwards

[Steve Langasek]

severity 361805 important
thanks

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 02:38:46PM +0200, Dirk De Groote wrote:
> Package: bug-buddy
> Version: 2.8.0-3
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable

> tested on 2 computers, with same result : lauching "bug-buddy" proposes
> you to update your bug-information. Clicking "update" starts downloading
> 6 (4 on the other box) updates. Then an error message appears :
> "application has quit unexpectedly" and you get 3 options : "restart
> app", "close" or "inform developpers" ( the latter being impossible
> since that one tries to launch "bug-buddy" ...). Selecting "restart"
> puts you back in the "update" loop , this time only requiering 2 updates
> , but those never succeed ... same loop all over : crash --> restart -->
> update --> crash --> restart ... etc.

So click the "don't update" button instead?

I'm not sure why this functionality is enabled at all in the Debian package
of bug-buddy, since updates should happen through the Debian package system
and *not* by pulling updates from third-party websites; but in any case, you
don't have to agree to update in order to use bug-buddy, so I don't think
this warrants a grave severity.

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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