Comment 23 for bug 68792

TheGZeus wrote:
> I really hope I don't come off as rude here, but I get frustrated and tweak out...
> umm....Why is this not fixed/backported/reverted?

Could you please tell us what's exactly broken? If you are referring to exactly
this bug (amule crashing when downloading kad nodes) it has never worked fine
for me, e.g. if I click on the button more than once very quickly amule will
crash. (I forwarded that upstream but amule devs said it was wxWidgets fault and
vice versa).

> It worked on my last installation, and the one before(etc. to half way through feisty) but...not now.
> Why did this package get 'updated' when it just breaks an installation? is this a sporadic problem, with no current known cause?

It works fine to me (except some corner cases as clicking 3 or 4 times in the
kad nodes or the serverlist) so could you please say what's broken? Is it that
the amule doesn't upgrade cleanly (and if so from which release to which one)?
Or that it doesn't start? Or that it crashes when doing something (and doing what)?

> Again, the current version out there fixes this problem, but for some reason there's not even a patch? I'd like to help somehow, but I don't even know where to start, and I'm not much help when I'm this frustrated. I have 30+gb worth of unfinished downloads just taking up space.

Which version? Do you mean upstream's CVS tarball? If so, a) we do not have it
yet since it's not final (although we may include it if it's not final for
Hardy) and b) I tried it yesterday and I could reproduce this bug (the kad
nodes). So what package are you talking about?

>
> To sum up, it used to work, now it doesn't, there's a fix, it's not
> available through apt, I want to help, I don't know how, and doubt I'd
> do that well at it.

An start would be specifying which fix is out there :) Then we could get it in.

Cheers,
Emilio

>
> Pulling out his own hair,
>
> G.Z.
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