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depmco n00b
Joined: 07 Dec 2009 Posts: 26
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:21 am Post subject: sci-electronics/spice: To Bug or not to Bug? |
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I use plain Berkeley spice for circuit simulation. Both sci-electronics/spice-3.5.5-r1 and spice-3.5.5-r2 build successfully on my 4.12.5-gentoo x86_64 system. However, they both crash (segfault) from the UI when changing the working directory. I'm pretty sure the code worked fine on x32.
I believe I've found and fixed the problem on my system. I'm looking for advice as to how to report this bug. The Gentoo bug reporting guidelines ask that upstream bugs not be reported, and this clearly fits in that category. However, the upstream address listed in the package xml is UC-Berkeley, who is no longer supporting this code. There will be no further releases, at least from Berkeley. So, should I
- shut up, be happy and just use my fixed code,
- report a bug on Gentoo Bugzilla in spite of the bug reporting guidance or
- report it to someone else (who?)
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Naib Watchman
Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 6051 Location: Removed by Neddy
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 8:21 am Post subject: |
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Or fork the code on github, add your patch and this becomes the new spice _________________
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54097 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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depmco,
Report the bug to Gentoo along with your patch.
A -r bump can be generated to supply and apply your patch if the Gentoo devs decide that Gentoo should carry the patch.
You can always file a pull request on github, then its a code review and a pull, which is less work for the maintainers still.
You might even become the proxy maintainer if you are not careful. :) _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
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those that do backups
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depmco n00b
Joined: 07 Dec 2009 Posts: 26
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the advice. I'll take Neddy's first option and report the bug with my fix. Less danger of becoming the proxy maintainer And I'm certainly not up to speed on the procedures for github and package maintenance!
Thanks again.
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54097 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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depmco,
That's what the Proxy Maintainers Project is for. _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
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those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
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