Bug#701044: Processed: severity

[Daniel Pocock]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256



On 16/02/16 10:52, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> Control: severity -1 normal
> 
> On 2016-02-16 09:48:09, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>> Processing commands for control at bugs.debian.org:
>> 
>>> severity 701044 serious
>> Bug #701044 [src:libmusicbrainz5] flactag errors when run 
>> Severity set to 'serious' from 'normal'
> 
> When you raise a severity to serious, you have to give a
> justification. Also,

That was sent in a separate email

> there is easy workaround for this bug. Just pipe stderr to
> /dev/null.
> 

I tried redirecting stderr to a file and flactag wouldn't run at all,
the stderr file just contained some HTTP error code

I tried again just now and I notice flactag's Rename operation calls
the file NOARTIST-NOALBUM.flac so it looks like this bug / API change
makes it almost completely nonfunctional.


> Setting the severity back to normal.

Personally, I think the issues with REST APIs like this changing
around need to be on the radar of the release team well before the
freeze, hence severity serious or higher.

Maybe the MusicBrainz people can provide a legacy API.  Maybe Debian
can reduce our dependency on packages with these issues or look at
ways to make it easier to update such packages during the life of a
stable release.  There are a whole class of packages with issues like
this now due to dependencies on public REST services yet I haven't
seen any Debian strategy for dealing with it.

For more exotic packages the updates can just be made available
through backports but this is a package installed by default on most
desktops.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2
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=d1UP
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----