patch from CVS to fix crash triggered when closing ekiga by example

That has been fixed to feisty already

changelog:

 gnome-vfs2 (2.16.1-0ubuntu6) edgy-proposed; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/91_from_cvs_protect_against_handlers_reordering.patch:
     - patch from CVS, "Protect against reordering of atexit handlers and
       thread exit handlers", can be triggered when closing ekiga by example
       (Ubuntu: #76301)

http://librarian.launchpad.net/5444040/gnomevfs.debdiff approved for upload to edgy-proposed.

uploaded to edgy-proposed

the upstream bug has over 400 duplicates and upstream is pretty unhappy about Ubuntu because of it, could anybody approve that edgy-proposed upload?

The minimum aging period has elapsed; the package can be migrated to edgy-updates once testing has been completed per StableReleaseUpdates.

Why is upstream unhappy with Ubuntu? This bug does not seem Ubuntu-specific.

Hello Matt Zimmerman,

Maybe because Ubuntu is mainstream...

Really, can't you do something to at least reduce the amount of reports? It is just growing and growing right now.

Regards,
Yannick

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 02:25:11AM -0000, Yannick Defais wrote:
> Hello Matt Zimmerman,
>
> Maybe because Ubuntu is mainstream...
>
> Really, can't you do something to at least reduce the amount of reports?
> It is just growing and growing right now.

I don't know of anything we can do to control how many people report this
bug to GNOME, no.

What we can do is prepare, test and release a fix for Ubuntu, which is what
we are doing.

What we cannot do is release an untested fix.

The fix is in edgy-proposed and thereby publicly available for testing.
Confirmation of both the fix and of a lack of functional regressions is
welcome here.

--
 - mdz

> I don't know of anything we can do to control how many people report this
> bug to GNOME, no.
Unfortunately nothing, of course.

> What we can do is prepare, test and release a fix for Ubuntu, which is what
> we are doing.
In the weeks after the fix was done, it didn't look like Ubuntu would use it. Nearly all the bugreports came from Edgy users (I estimate about 95%). That's why we shaked our heads after a while.
As of now, the flood time seems to be over, I only get 2-3 DUPs per day for it.
Of course it isn't/wasn't an Ubuntu bug, but Edgy seems to be the only distribution that either
- used that buggy GNOME-VFS implementation or reported
OR
- reported bugs at all

Hence the confusion on our side about the progress here.

I hope that explains our point of view, at least a little bit.

Regards,
Jan

Matt, "The minimum aging period has elapsed", that would be true if somebody accepted the upload to edgy-proposed which is apparently not the case, the upload is waiting on moderation for weeks now.

The bug is not Ubuntu specific, the version shipped with edgy has that bug though, we didn't update to the new gnomevfs version, Ubuntu has many users and bug-buddy which is used by default make easy for bugzilla to get flooded, the combinaisons of those facts makes that most of dups come from edgy.

The frustration comes from the fact that the proposed update is still waiting for moderation after some weeks and they keep getting duplicates for that problem meanwhile

Accepted into edgy-proposed

Regression tested and it looks fine. Please upload to edgy-updates immediately.

Thanks.

update uploaded now

Upload accepted into edgy-updates.