On 11-06-30 08:59 AM, Roth Robert wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > I have read your application and would personally be happy to have you > in the Bug Control Team. > You application looks nice, the list of bugs seems ok to me, both the > importances and the statuses, with some small objections related to the > last bug: >
Hi Robert, And to think I was particularly proud of how I'd handled this bug report :) goes to show one can't let his guard down when it comes to searching for duplicates. I really appreciate your comments and will try to be more diligent when searching for duplicates, I guess it's always a learning experience when it comes to triaging bugs. Thanks again! - Daniel > - Uninstallable non-Ubuntu application, due to bad Python programming. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python2.7/+bug/788771. Set as > invalid as it is not an Ubuntu-supplied package, if it had been an > Ubuntu package I would have set importance to medium as "has a severe > impact in a non-core application" (basically uninstallable). I asked the > reporter to request help from the application developers, and also > linked to an upstream bug report indicating that the behavior has been > fixed in new version of Python. Finally, the analysis I did of the > behavior might enable the app developers to fix their code so as to > prevent possible, future bug reports about the same problem. > > > 1. If you look carefully, the bug already contains the TraceBack.txt, > which already contains the exact same stacktrace you've commented in > comment 2 > 2. The stacktrace contains aptdaemon, which might point you to the right > package > ( The upstream bug seems unrelated to me, although it has the same error > message, because both of these problems are caused by an OverflowError, > the python issue is about the left shift operator and long value > arguments, the real issue here is caused by an aptdaemon programming > error, aptdaemon reads the Installed-Size value from the deb package's > control file, and multiplies it by 1024, thus resulting in a value too > large to hold in an Int32) > Based on the stacktrace, if you look in the aptdaemon package, and > search for parts of the error message, like overflowerror, you might > find bug 771678 > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptdaemon/+bug/771678) which > has the exact same stacktrace, and lots of duplicates, many of them > reported while installing zumodrive or synergy, so you could tell that > it's a duplicate :) > > Thank you for your application, and keep up the good work :) > > Regards, > Robert _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-bugcontrol Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-bugcontrol More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
