A statement explaining the impact of the bug on users and justification for backporting the fix to the stable release: Fixes memory leak
An explanation of how the bug has been addressed in the development branch, including the relevant version numbers of packages modified in order to implement the fix. dbus (1.2.1-2) unstable; urgency=low [ Sjoerd Simons ] * debian/rules: Disable the disabling of the userdb cache. No other distribution disables it and it is somewhat buggy (Thanks to Scott James Remnant for pointing out this issue) -- Sjoerd Simons <sjo...@debian.org> Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:41:47 +0200 A minimal patch applicable to the stable version of the package. If preparing a patch is likely to be time-consuming, it may be preferable to get a general approval from the SRU team first. Attached Detailed instructions how to reproduce the bug. These should allow someone who is not familiar with the affected package to reproduce the bug and verify that the updated package fixes the problem. Please mark this with a line "TEST CASE:". TEST CASE: Run dbus on hardy, watch memory increase. A discussion of the regression potential of the patch and how users could get inadvertently affected. Minimal, fix is obvious, upstream and tested in later versions. ** Attachment added: "dbus-disable-disable-userdb-cache.patch" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29412847/dbus-disable-disable-userdb-cache.patch -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs