Bug#468929: Processed: jessie

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Sun Sep 21 10:18:47 UTC 2014


Control: retitle -1 libmail-cclient-perl: Fails to open any mailbox

Hi Holger,

Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Sonntag, 21. September 2014, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > why do you think that this bug report does not apply to Wheezy?
> 
> I didnt mean to imply this. I tagged it "+ sid jessie" to indicate the RC 
> severity doesnt apply to wheezy. As the bug is now, it will show up on the 
> radar of people fixing RC bugs in stable and I didnt think this test suite 
> failure was RC in stable. Turns out I was wrong :)

Well, yeah, but I must admit the bug title was misleading with regards
to the new findings from 2009. So I see now why you thought that bug
doesn't apply to older releases.

I've fixed that now. :-)

> > Especially since we requested the removal of libmail-cclient-perl from
> > Sid and Jessie due to this bug, it's IMHO even more important to make
> > clear which bug reports still apply to Stable and Oldstable.
> 
> if the package really doesnt work in stable (and oldstable) at all,
> it should either be fixed there, or also removed.

Yes, I was thinking about that, too. So far I have no idea what
actually causes the breakage. Maybe some subtle ABI change in
libc-client?

		Regards, Axel
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