DrKonqui broken

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday, March 09, 2012 10:13:40 AM Mitch Golden wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, Harald Sitter wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Mitch Golden <mgolden at mitchgolden.com> 
wrote:
> >> I see on this blog that DrKonqui is broken in 4.8.1.  No crash bug
> >> reports will be submitted.
> >> 
> >> http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/2012/03/08#drkonqui_is_broken
> >> 
> >> Can someone tell me what I might be able to do to help fix this
> >> problem?
> >> It seems rather urgent to me.
> > 
> > Upstream decided to switch their bugzilla to a new incompatible
> > version, so they'll need to fix it. I know it was brought up at least
> > yesterday and from what I read a solution is being envisioned.
> > 
> > FWIW the break is affecting *all* releases of drkonqi, so they'll need
> > to come up with a solution for many a great versions or bad things are
> > gonna happen
> 
> I looked at the code in DrKonqi (hard to type without the U) and I
> realized that all they need to do to fix it is to add an HTML comment
> somewhere on the screen that says "Managing Your Account" and that will
> fix it.  I don't know why that would be hard.
> 
> See here:
> 
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/kde-runtime/onei
> ric/view/head:/drkonqi/bugzillalib.cpp
> 
> take a look at line 250.
> 
> Hopefully that can be done quickly.
> 
> 
> I would agree that the idea of screen scraping in this way is a bit
> brittle.

Interesting.  The upstream proposed fix is much more invasive:

https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104200/

Scott K