Subject: [jessie] how to file bug report against update that broke other packages?

From: "D. R. Evans" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:44:13 -0600

As of a few days ago the gscan2pdf program is no longer functioning properly
in up-to-date jessie.

The culprit seems to be one of the packages updated as part of the recent
imagemagick security update. But I don't which of the updated files, or even
which package, causes the problem (indeed, I am not 100% certain that it is
the imagemagick update that is the source of the problem, but it sure looks
very, very likely).

So I am unsure how to proceed and let the developers know that the breakage
needs to be fixed (ASAP, I hope), since the breakage appears in a package that
was not updated, and I don't know precisely which package is responsible.

Any advice as to how to notify the debian team of the problem in a way that
will be useful to them would be gratefully received.

  Doc

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From: kamaraju kusumanchi <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 00:10:35 -0400

> As of a few days ago the gscan2pdf program is no longer functioning properly

I think you need to debug the problem a bit more before reporting it
on any package.

What do you mean by "no longer functioning properly"? What is the
expected behavior and what is the current behavior? Is the problem
reproducible?

> So I am unsure how to proceed

For issues like this, you should keep track of the list of installed
packages before and after the upgrades. That makes it easier to debug
if something goes wrong. For example, you can use this shell script
https://gitlab.com/d3k2mk7/rutils/blob/master/bin/installed_packages.sh
which will store the list of packages in ~/logs directory with a
timestamp appended to the file name.

Sample run
% installed_packages.sh
stored the list of installed packages in
/home/rajulocal/logs/installed_packages_list_20160903_000640.txt

hope that helps
raju
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From: Jonathan Dowland <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 10:07:34 +0100

> As of a few days ago the gscan2pdf program is no longer functioning properly

I'd report it against gscan2pdf in the first instance. The maintainers of the
package which has broken will be best equipped to figure out whether or not the
problem needs changes in the gscan2pdf package or elsewhere; the bug can always
be reassigned later if needs be.

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From: "D. R. Evans" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 07:27:53 -0600

> be reassigned later if needs be.

Thank you. After some thought, I had come to the same conclusion; so I'll do
that when I get a chance later today.

  Doc