Bug#674006: bug #674006 wvstreams diff

2012-06-15 Thread Peter Drysdale
Attached is diff for debian/rules for wvstreams to fix this bug. It has been runtime tested on two different machines. Wvstreams has received an ITA (intent to adopt) since I first started looking into this bug. I presume the new maintainer (Bart Martens) will upload for this bug in combination w

Bug#674006: runtime tested solution found

2012-06-14 Thread Peter Drysdale
Please find attached a new debian/rules file for wvstreams which appears to fix this bug. It is altered in two places to switch off some compiler optimizations. It is obviously a hack. This has been runtime tested on borrowed hardware. This follows Fabrice's suggestions. Proper diff and packagi

Bug#674006: wvdial further discussion

2012-06-13 Thread Peter Drysdale
Dear Chris, Thanks for your testing and feedback. Apologies about the patch being insufficient. I have not had access to the affected hardware since my previous post. I note work continues at Fedora on this bug which can be found at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812651 Instead of

Bug#674006:

2012-06-07 Thread Peter Drysdale
Please find attached a draft patch refreshed in the Debian style. This patch has passed build testing only on a Debian system. It has passed testing on Fedora. Run-time testing this patch on Debian will have to await either till I get access to the hardware effected or another person affected by

Bug#674006: libwvstreams4.6-base 4.6.1-4 ----- wvdial stopped working

2012-06-07 Thread Peter Drysdale
The purpose of this email is to set forth the reasons for raising the severity of this bug and describe my intentions. 1) I intend to increase the severity to release critical. The Debian document regarding severity states: critical makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) br

Bug#674006: libwvstreams4.6-base 4.6.1-4 ----- wvdial stopped working

2012-06-07 Thread Peter Drysdale
Dear Gregor, Thank you for your email. It forced me to look further into Debian procedures and policy. Between your email and details of Debian policy I think I have found a way forward. To avoid noise to your account I will not copy you to subsequent emails regarding this bug where I can avoid i

Bug#674006: libwvstreams4.6-base 4.6.1-4 ----- wvdial stopped working

2012-06-06 Thread Peter Drysdale
with the very best regards, Peter Peter Drysdale (Uploader for festival and speech-tools) magic.patch Description: Binary data