Bug#822849: qemubuilder: fix --update by checking for the correct asprintf() return value

[Peter Pentchev]

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 04:52:36PM +0100, James Clarke wrote:
> Control: severity -1 important
> 
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 03:25:44PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
> > * Peter Pentchev [Thu Apr 28, 2016 at 01:28:54PM +0300]:
> > > Package: qemubuilder
> > > Version: 0.79
> > > Severity: grave
> > > Tags: patch
> >
> > What's the rational for marking this as grave?
> >
> > (Asking because packages like jenkins-debian-glue are marked for
> > autoremoval because of their dependency on qemubuilder [related]
> > packages and this bug report doesn't look like it would satisfy
> > severity grave to me)
> 
> Indeed, this should not be grave:
> 
> > grave
> >     makes the package in question unusable or mostly so, or causes
> >     data loss, or introduces a security hole allowing access to the
> >     accounts of users who use the package.
> >
> > serious
> >     is a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a
> >     must or required directive), or, in the package maintainer's or
> >     release manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for
> >     release.
> >
> > important
> >     a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package,
> >     without rendering it completely unusable to everyone.
> 
> I class this as important. It does not make the package "completely
> unusable to everyone", as it only affects updating. There is a very
> simple workaround: re-create the image.

Agreed... although most of my images are more or less customized.
Still, yes, there is a workaround and in most cases it is simple,
so, yes, severity "important" is fine.

G'luck,
Peter

-- 
Peter Pentchev  roam at ringlet.net roam at FreeBSD.org pp at storpool.com
PGP key:        http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc
Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115  C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 819 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pbuilder-maint/attachments/20160514/f4a5fc91/attachment.sig>