Bug#546515: libtest-valgrind-perl: FTBFS with valgrind 3.5.0: Ran out of memory for input buffer

[Russ Allbery]

Ryan Niebur <ryanryan52 at gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:30:22PM +0200, Vincent Pit wrote:

>> I'm not sure this really worth being qualified as "serious". No
>> "serious" code depends on this.

> this is serious for us. we need the ability to rebuild packages. during
> package build, the tests are ran.

I suspect the point of confusion is that, in Debian, bug severities are
per-package.  So this bug is marked as serious for the
libtest-valgrind-perl package specifically, which is correct since the
package is currently not usable with the current valgrind.  It doesn't
mean it's serious for the distribution as a whole in the way that I think
Vincent is thinking of.  It just means that we wouldn't ship this package
with a Debian release were we to make one right now.

Vincent, thank you very much for reading bug traffic like this!  It's
really wonderful to have upstream authors who are interested in following
the packaging of their software.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>