Bug#526471: Could you please followup on this?

[Francesco Poli]

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:23:46 +0100 Loïc Minier wrote:

>         Hi
> 
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > Could you please explain why my patch is being rejected, no, even
> > worse, why is it being *ignored*?
> 
>  Sorry for not getting back to you earlier.
> 
>  On my side, I have not touched pbuilder internals that much lately;

Well, on *my* side, I hadn't touched pbuilder at all, before
experiencing the bug I reported!
Nonetheless, I began reading and understanding the code and tried to
come up with a fix...

>  the
>  approach seems ok, but I would have to dive into the specifics to
>  understand whether this is really the best fix, so I preferred leaving
>  the bug to Junichi who understands the original intents of the code.

It may be not the *best* possible fix one could ever imagine or desire,
but I think it's a fix, nonetheless.
At least on my boxes, the bug is present without my patch, while it
is not present when my patch is applied.

Did you try to reproduce the bug?
Do you agree with me that my patch fixes the bug?

I don't think that leaving the bug unfixed (since last May!), waiting
for the Perfect Fix™, is a reasonable strategy.

Please apply my patch *as soon as possible*, so that the bug can be
considered fixed.
After that, *if* someone (Junichi, or anyone else) comes up with a more
elegant, or robust, or good-looking, or whatever, fix, I will happily
welcome a further improvement. 

> 
>  I suggest you let more time to Junichi to review the patch and/or come
>  up with another solution.

More time than this much?!?
I've waited since Fri, 01 May 2009!

I think it's really time to do something in order to fix this bug...


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