[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#691600: libghc-warp-dev: does not parse request headers correctly

[Steve McIntyre]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 07:11:57PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Am Sonntag, den 27.01.2013, 15:09 +0000 schrieb Steve McIntyre:
>> Do we have any hope of progress on this RC bug? Otherwise it's
>> incredibly tempting to push for removal of libghc-warp-dev considering
>> its tiny popcon and the fact that it has never been in a stable Debian
>> release...
>
>I’m still have doubts if the severity is appropriate. The proportion of
>clients sending such strange header is likely quite small, so this
>sounds more like “a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a
>package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone.” i.e.
>important.

In that case, drop the severity? I'm curious why you didn't do that
already, in fact.

>Or does anyone think that not having warp (and its reverse dependencies)
>in is better than a version with incompatibility problems?

Pass; I neither use nor develop in Haskell, I'm just trying to get the
RC bug count down so we can get Wheezy released.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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