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[Daniel Manrique <daniel.manrique@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11-06-30 08:59 AM, Roth Robert wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> I have read your application and would personally be happy to have you
> in the Bug Control Team.
> You application looks nice, the list of bugs seems ok to me, both the
> importances and the statuses, with some small objections related to the
> last bug:
> 

Hi Robert,

And to think I was particularly proud of how I'd handled this bug report
:) goes to show one can't let his guard down when it comes to searching
for duplicates.

I really appreciate your comments and will try to be more diligent when
searching for duplicates, I guess it's always a learning experience when
it comes to triaging bugs.

Thanks again!

- Daniel

>     - Uninstallable non-Ubuntu application, due to bad Python programming.
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python2.7/+bug/788771. Set as
>     invalid as it is not an Ubuntu-supplied package, if it had been an
>     Ubuntu package I would have set importance to medium as "has a severe
>     impact in a non-core application" (basically uninstallable). I asked the
>     reporter to request help from the application developers, and also
>     linked to an upstream bug report indicating that the behavior has been
>     fixed in new version of Python. Finally, the analysis I did of the
>     behavior might enable the app developers to fix their code so as to
>     prevent possible, future bug reports about the same problem.
> 
> 
> 1. If you look carefully, the bug already contains the TraceBack.txt,
> which already contains the exact same stacktrace you've commented in
> comment 2
> 2. The stacktrace contains aptdaemon, which might point you to the right
> package
> ( The upstream bug seems unrelated to me, although it has the same error
> message, because both of these problems are caused by an OverflowError,
> the python issue is about the left shift operator and long value
> arguments, the real issue here is caused by an aptdaemon programming
> error, aptdaemon reads the Installed-Size value from the deb package's
> control file, and multiplies it by 1024, thus resulting in a value too
> large to hold in an Int32)
> Based on the stacktrace, if you look in the aptdaemon package, and
> search for parts of the error message, like overflowerror, you might
> find bug 771678
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptdaemon/+bug/771678) which
> has the exact same stacktrace, and lots of duplicates, many of them
> reported while installing zumodrive or synergy, so you could tell that
> it's a duplicate :)
> 
> Thank you for your application, and keep up the good work :)
> 
> Regards, 
> Robert