bug in Solaar 1.1.5

[Peter F. Patel-Schneider]

I see no reason to hold up any Ubuntu release for Solaar.  I'm not even sure 
that there is a problem with Solaar in Ubuntu.  All that I have is a single 
report from a user - I have not looked at the distribution at all.


peter



On 10/17/22 18:47, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 05:45:33AM -0400, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>> Hi:
>> I'm the maintainer of Solaar.   It appears that Solaar for Ubuntu was
>> recently upgraded from version 1.1.1 to version 1.1.5.  I have a report that
>> something went wrong when he ran Solaar 1.1.5 -
>> https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar/issues/1785
>> I'm not sure why he ended up with an empty ~/.config/solaar/config.yaml
>> file.  I don't see a path in the code that would make this file empty.  I'm
>> going to patch the file to handle this issue though.
> Unfortunately, we are now 3 days away from the Ubuntu 22.10 release.  It's
> unclear to me if any Ubuntu Developers will step up and have an opportunity
> to upload a fix to this for inclusion in the 22.10 release before then.  (As
> a member of the Release Team, I personally would definitely not!)  Given
> that you say it's unclear how this broken config file ever happened, unless
> there are more users reporting the same breakage we might just have to
> accept this defect for 22.10.
>
> If you think it's important enough to warrant a post-release update of the
> package, the Ubuntu process is here:
>
>     https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
>