Funky dependency mails

David Miller justdave at bugzilla.org
Fri Mar 19 12:30:34 UTC 2004


On 3/18/2004 2:45 AM -0500, David Miller wrote:

> There's a problem that's been around since shortly after we branched for
> 2.16 (the problem doesn't exist in 2.16, but only on the tip), where mail
> about a dependency state change will get doubled intermittently (it doesn't
> happen all the time, either).  We *cannot* ship Bugzilla 2.18 with this
> still happening.  Unfortunately, nobody has a clue what's causing it, and
> the code surrounding it is not obvious.
>
> This is http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179351
>
> If there's anyone out there that can donate some time into trying to track
> this down, it would be really, really appreciated!

Many thanks to Teemu Mannermaa who took this on, and indeed found and fixed
it :)  Amazing what a difference the scope of a variable can make ;)
-- 
Dave Miller      Project Leader, Bugzilla Bug Tracking System
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