[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#932927: questions

[Aurelien Jarno]

Hi,

On 2024-10-01 22:10, Hefee wrote:
> Control: tags -1 +moreinfo
> 
> Hey Aurelien,
> 
> Can you please explain, why you see value in keeping this bug open for more 
> than two years? I see no action item; aka nothing to do at the moment, just 
> wait or do I miss something?

There is a patch in the BTS to fix the issue. I am waiting for this bug
to be fixed either by applying the patch, or by an alternative solution.

> So far I understood, that this bug may come again in future - okay - but every 
> bug could come in future again, that in it self is not a reason to keep the 
> bug open. Why not close this bug now and open it, if you see it again.

Uninitialized variables can come back even without changing the source
code, it depends for instance on how the compiler generate code and
place variables in memory. That's actually very likely how the testsuite
started to pass on riscv64.

In short the bug is still there, just it is not visible anymore... for
now...

> And the other reason that the riscv porter team needs this bug, you declined 
> and actually removed it from there table.

Yes, given the testsuite now passes on riscv64, it does not block the
port anymore. But the bug is still there.

Regards
Aurelien

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
aurelien at aurel32.net                     http://aurel32.net
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