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

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 02:42:31PM +0200, Dirk De Groote wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:05 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > 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.

> Thanks for your reply, I agree, severity shouldn't be "important" , but
> that what the "report-bug" tool assigns automatically when the package
> itself becomes unusable. It does not affect any functionality of other
> packages on the system whatsoever, true.
> The "don't update" suggestion above however has no effect and crashes
> "bug-buddy" in the same way.

Hrm, this is bad; the bug-buddy package shouldn't let itself get into such
an unusable state.  Probably still not severity: grave, but I do hope this
gets fixed for etch.

Does apt-get install --reinstall bug-buddy fix this problem for you?

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon at debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/
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