[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#587842: My last (hopefully) bits for KDE in Squeeze

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Wed Jan 26 00:09:52 UTC 2011


user release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
usertag 587842 squeeze-can-defer
tag 587842 squeeze-ignore
kthxbye

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 23:04:31 +0200, Modestas Vainius wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On trečiadienis 19 Sausis 2011 11:18:34 Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 02:25:34 +0200, Modestas Vainius wrote:
> > > 4) src:krusader #604196 There are reports that the included fix for this
> > > grave bug is wrong. Too bad I would need to do a t-p-u upload in order
> > > to include the supposedly right fix (
> > > http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=1169424 +
> > > http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=1169519 ). I will test it
> > > as best as I can.
> > 
> > maybe r1 as well.
> 
> First of all, some background on the issue:
> 
> 1) Before 1:2.2.0~beta1-2 was uploaded, upstream [1] and me [2] had some 
> considerations about the fix because it apparently introduced a new regression 
> as serious as a crash [3]. To make things worse, #604196 was later opened 
> saying that the patch didn't actually fix the bug in the end.
> 
> 2) QCoreApplication::processEvents() [4] is considered to be a dangerous 
> function when called manually. It messes up control flow in unpredictable ways 
> as it triggers processing of the event loop right away. It may even dead lock 
> an application in the worst case scenario (event loop processing from within 
> unfinished event handler, oops). Who knows, maybe #604196 is because of event 
> loop deadlock.
> 
> The new patch apparently nails and fixes the real cause of the hang-on-quit. 
> Of course if there is release process related reasons to wait (e.g. it's 
> simply too late for t-p-u at this point), we can delay it. But if we could fix 
> it now, we should do it (it's -1 RC bug anyway, karma++ :-)).
> 
I think this can wait for r1, and at this point I'm nervous about more
changes before the release, so I'll defer this.

Thanks,
Julien
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