Bug#361805: bug-buddy: fails to update bug information and crashes afterwards

[Dirk De Groote]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:05 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> severity 361805 important
> thanks
> 
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 02:38:46PM +0200, Dirk De Groote wrote:
> > Package: bug-buddy
> > Version: 2.8.0-3
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> > tested on 2 computers, with same result : lauching "bug-buddy" proposes
> > you to update your bug-information. Clicking "update" starts downloading
> > 6 (4 on the other box) updates. Then an error message appears :
> > "application has quit unexpectedly" and you get 3 options : "restart
> > app", "close" or "inform developpers" ( the latter being impossible
> > since that one tries to launch "bug-buddy" ...). Selecting "restart"
> > puts you back in the "update" loop , this time only requiering 2 updates
> > , but those never succeed ... same loop all over : crash --> restart -->
> > update --> crash --> restart ... etc.
> 
> So click the "don't update" button instead?
> 
> I'm not sure why this functionality is enabled at all in the Debian package
> of bug-buddy, since updates should happen through the Debian package system
> and *not* by pulling updates from third-party websites; but in any case, you
> don't have to agree to update in order to use bug-buddy, so I don't think
> this warrants a grave severity.
> 

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your reply, I agree, severity shouldn't be "important" , but
that what the "report-bug" tool assigns automatically when the package
itself becomes unusable. It does not affect any functionality of other
packages on the system whatsoever, true.
The "don't update" suggestion above however has no effect and crashes
"bug-buddy" in the same way.
Anyway, as you said, it's not important, since there are enough other
ways to do bug-reporting besides bb.