Bug#509582: still puszed how a non maintainer handled the criticity while not responding to problem

[Eric Valette]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 23 décembre 2008 à 18:52 +0100, Eric Valette a écrit :
>> Bug#509582: still puszed how a non maintainer handled the  criticity
>> while not responding to problem
> 
> 1) I am one of the maintainers.
> 2) This bug is not critical. This severity means “breaks the whole
> system” or “root security hole”. This bug:

NO NO NO: breaks unrelated software. Look at the criteria given using
reportbug!

>       * only occurs on systems with legacy locale settings
>       * doesn’t occur all the time, unless you are always using
>         MALLOC_CHECK_=2

On experimental libc, apprently this is default. I do not set it
manually and it is not set in my environment.

>       * has an easy workaround: G_FILENAME_ENCODING=utf-8 (or just use a
>         working locale, damnit)

I use the locale I xant fuck!

>       * doesn’t affect at all the rest of the system

Yes it does it break thunderbird and mozilla! I'm not even sure you
tried to reproduce it with the correct package versions...

>       * it *may* have a security impact, but very low, since you’d have
>         to convince the user to save a specially crafted filename and to
>         open it later.

You have an know memory corrution problem. Security breach is near...

> 3) Don’t play bug ping-pong with the maintainers if you don’t want to be
> banned from the BTS. 
> 4) Even less play bug ping-pong if you don’t know what severities mean.

Look at reportbug messgaes and fix them then!


> 6) Don’t treat maintainers like idiots if you want them to handle your
> minor bug reports in the future.
> 

You do not treat bugs! You do nothing no even tell me what LANG /locales
settings I should use. So instead of helping me you are just saying I'm
an idiot. So do not expect any respect from my side!

If you do not think it is a bug I say it prevent me to work normally and
was introduced by the experimental package version.

Go away from debian maintenance if you do not want to fix bugs!

--eric