How to check the status of a bug [Bug 663364]?

[Peng Yu]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Steven Susbauer <steven at too1337.com> wrote:
> On Aug 5, 2011, at 6:16 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm wondering whether this bug has been fixed in natty. Does anybody
>> know how to check the status? If it is fixed, how to update the
>> related packages?
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Peng
>
> It was fixed in vte 0.26.2 and 0.27.1, Natty uses 0.27.90. The package to check is libvte9, which in Natty should be at 1:0.27.90-0ubuntu1. You can verify by running 'aptitude show libvte9'.

Here is the output. But I still get the gnome-terminal error "failed
to create pipe for communicating with child process" (note that this
is the same as Bug 663364, because somebody report this bug but then
considered as duplicate of 663364).

Since vte's version Natty is later than 0.26.2 and 0.27.1, I should
expect the bug has been fixed in Natty. Why do I still see the error
on my ubuntu system?

$ aptitude show libvte9
Package: libvte9
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1:0.27.90-0ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 721 k
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4),
         libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libgtk2.0-0
         (>= 2.22.0), libncurses5 (>= 5.5-5~), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0),
         libx11-6, libvte-common
Description: Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 2.0 - runtime files
 The VTE library inserts terminal capability strings into a trie, and then uses
 it to determine if data received from a pseudo-terminal is a control sequence
 or just random data. The sample program "interpret" illustrates more or less
 what the widget sees after it filters incoming data.




-- 
Regards,
Peng