[Bug 735369] Re: Bacula Admin Tool (bat) does not work well with Qt 4.6.2 in Lucid

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Kern Sibbald's message of Sat Apr 02 07:20:23 UTC 2011:
> On Saturday 02 April 2011 02:23:21 Clint Byrum wrote:
> > Kern, does this mean that there is an explicit fix in the code of 5.2.0
> > that will make this problem go away on Qt 4.6.2 ?
> 
> There have been a very large number of changes to bat from 5.0.x to 5.2.0, 
> including new features, bug fixes, and particularly seg fault fixes.  I am 
> sorry, I don't remember the specifics, and since I did not explicitly 
> reproduce the reported bug, I am not sure there is an explicit fix, but I 
> think so.
> 
> >
> > While I do think we should put 5.2.0 in backports when it arrives, if
> > the fix is simple it might be worth patching 5.0.1 so it works in lucid.
> 
> There were a lot of changes, and I believe we have a significant number in the 
> Director too, so any backporting might not be easy.  You are free to try 
> backporting but it is not something that I am personally going to do.
> 
> >
> > This one is really hard to confirm as I don't have any files to restore
> > in my test bacula. Is there a shorter test case?
> 
> I don't know as I haven't explicitly reproduced the reported bug.
> 
> >
> > I'm going to mark this as Incomplete, pending a shorter test case and/or
> > answers from Kern. If its too hard to test, and/or too hard to fix in
> > lucid, it might just have to be a "Won't Fix".
> 
> OK.  I am not sure what your procedure is -- it might be good to note "fixed 
> in 5.2.x" providing that is really the case.

Hm. Sounds like this one may not get backported.

The procedure is to mark the main bug task Fix Released, but then track
each release of the package before that individually. Won't Fix means the
bug is in that version, but we're not going to fix it.

> * Changed in: bacula (Ubuntu)
> >        Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
> 
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> Title:
>   Bacula Admin Tool (bat) does not work well with Qt 4.6.2 in Lucid
> 
> Status in Bacula the Network Backup Solution:
>   New
> Status in “bacula” package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
> 
> Bug description:
>   Binary package hint: bacula-console-qt
> 
>   On lucid, in the Version Browser of bat, it is impossible to check the
>   latest version of a file.  This is described in the following upstream
>   bug report:  http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1550  (login using
>   anonymous/anonymous)
> 
>   For convenience, here is the verbatim of the bug description:
> 
>   --------------
>   I often restore a single file, so I use Version Browser.
> 
>   1) I browse for the file and when clicking on it, I see many different versions of it.
>   2) When I try to mark the file (tick the checkbox), it cannot be done
>   3) When I try to mark the most recent version of the file in 'Versions of File', it cannot be done
>   4) When I try to mark any other version of the file, it works OK
>   5) When there's another version of the file available (after the next backup), the version which couldn't be marked, can now be marked and the most recent can not
> 
>   It seems to be so for every job and every file within a job.
> 
>   I turned on all the debugging options of Bat, but there's nothing said when marking (or trying to) files/versions.
>   -----------------
> 
>   Response from the lead developer of Bacula:
>

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Title:
  Bacula Admin Tool (bat) does not work well with Qt 4.6.2 in Lucid