[DRE-maint] Bug#490305: remove kazehakase?

[Noritada Kobayashi]

reassign 490305 libglib2-ruby1.8 0.17.0~rc1-5
tag 490305 + patch
thanks

Hi Lucas,

2008/9/17 Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net>:
> On 09/09/08 at 08:39 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>> > 2008/9/7 Thomas Viehmann:
>> > > Noritada Kobayashi wrote:
>> > >> Please wait a little while.  This issue may not be resulted from a bug
>> > >> inside Kazehakase.
>> > >
>> > > I can't speak for the release team, but I'd like to point out that a
>> > > little while is more likely be measured in lower single-digit number of
>> > > days than weeks or months, so you should hurry indeed.
>> >
>> > All right.  Now I reassign the bug to ruby1.8.
>>
>> I don't think it's a bug in ruby1.8. Garbage collection changed a bit
>> recently, which triggered some bugs in several libs (see #494515 for
>> example). If it's not a bug in kazehakase itself, it's more likely to be
>> a bug in libgtk-ruby1.8, since it happens while requiring that lib in
>> /usr/share/kazehakase/ext/ruby/kazehakase-init-pre.rb.
>>
>> FWIW, I tried with libgtk2-ruby1.8 0.17.0~rc1-5, but it doesn't fix the
>> problem.
>>
>> Based on the above info, I'm reassigning to libgtk2-ruby1.8. Feel free
>> to reassign to ruby1.8 if it turns out that it's a bug in ruby1.8. But
>> it doesn't sound like the most likely candidate.
>
> I tried to work on this a bit more.
>
> In a pure lenny chroot, on a different machine, I can't reproduce the
> bug (but I still reproduce it on my laptop). I found no proof that it
> isn't a bug in kazehakase, but in ruby or ruby-gnome2, so I'm
> reassigning to kazehakase.

Thank you very much for working on that issue.  It seems that time has
come for us to close the bug. :-)

Today, Kouhei Sutou, an upstream developer of both Ruby/GNOME2 and
Kazehakase's Ruby extension, finally figured out that the issue is
caused by a bug in libglib2-ruby1.8.  He fixed the bug in the
repository of Ruby/GNOME2 at r3312.  So, I created an attached patch
based on that revision, rebuilt the ruby-gnome2 package with it
applied, and confirmed that the issue is no more reproduced.

It took a bit long time since Kouhei couldn't reproduce the bug on his
machine (Debian sid, amd64).  I must thank him for working on the
issue on such a condition.

Thanks,

-nori
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