bug 579348 when are we going to see it fixed for Fedora 13?

[KC8LDO]

As far as I can see this issue is being ignored. See the link below.

http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg1593...

Apparently this has been fixed since last October and the person this has 
been assigned to did the package update for Fedora-14.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=579348

Cole Robinson said it should be fixed for Fedora-13. See comment 45. The 
current packages date from August 2010 so they definitely have not been 
updated.

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/13/x86_64/

qemu-0.12.5-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm12-Aug-2010 11:04 23K
      qemu-common-0.12.5-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm12-Aug-2010 11:04 242K
      qemu-img-0.12.5-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm12-Aug-2010 11:04 146K
      qemu-kvm-0.12.5-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm12-Aug-2010 11:04 22K
      qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.5-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm12-Aug-2010 11:04 33K
      qemu-system-arm-0.12.5-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm12-Aug-2010 11:04 880K
      qemu-system-cris-0.12.5-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm12-Aug-2010 11:04 560K
      qemu-system-m68k-0.12.5-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm12-Aug-2010 11:04 601K
      qemu-system-mips-0.12.5-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm12-Aug-2010 11:04 2.9M
      qemu-system-ppc-0.12.5-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm12-Aug-2010 11:04 2.6M
      qemu-system-sh4-0.12.5-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm12-Aug-2010 11:04 1.1M
      qemu-system-sparc-0.12.5-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm12-Aug-2010 11:04 623K
      qemu-system-x86-0.12.5-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm12-Aug-2010 11:04 2.3M
      qemu-user-0.12.5-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm12-Aug-2010 11:04 4.0M

[Justin Forbes]

On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 18:23 -0500, KC8LDO wrote:
> As far as I can see this issue is being ignored. See the link below.
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg1593...
>
> Apparently this has been fixed since last October and the person this has 
> been assigned to did the package update for Fedora-14.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=579348
>
> Cole Robinson said it should be fixed for Fedora-13. See comment 45. The 
> current packages date from August 2010 so they definitely have not been 
> updated.

Correct, though not completely ignored.  There are multiple workarounds
to make this particular issue much lower impact, which makes it rather
unproductive to roll a new package just for the one fix.  An F13 update
is being worked on to address several issues, and this fix will be
included in that update.  That said I, and a large number of other
folks, are on vacation for the remainder of the year.  I will actually
not be back until Jan 5th, so nothing will be happening before that
time.

Justin

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:45:59 -0600
Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> An F13 update
> is being worked on to address several issues, and this fix will be
> included in that update.

Also, I found the move to fedora 14 was rather painless. I installed
f14 from scratch on a separate partition, and was able to "virsh define"
all my virtual machines from the saved xml files from fedora 13, and they
all seemed to work OK. I've even used the spice support that now exists
in fedora 14 to get my windows machines running under spice (though that
is a bit painful since the current f14 libvirt doesn't support it
directly and it requires some minor hacking in the form of a wrapper
script to run instead of the normal qemu emulator command).

So if you really need the fix, going to fedora 14 isn't too bad
a way to get it.

[Justin Forbes]

On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 19:10 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:45:59 -0600
> Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> > An F13 update
> > is being worked on to address several issues, and this fix will be
> > included in that update.
>
> Also, I found the move to fedora 14 was rather painless. I installed
> f14 from scratch on a separate partition, and was able to "virsh define"
> all my virtual machines from the saved xml files from fedora 13, and they
> all seemed to work OK. I've even used the spice support that now exists
> in fedora 14 to get my windows machines running under spice (though that
> is a bit painful since the current f14 libvirt doesn't support it
> directly and it requires some minor hacking in the form of a wrapper
> script to run instead of the normal qemu emulator command).
>
> So if you really need the fix, going to fedora 14 isn't too bad
> a way to get it.

Actually, the virt preview repository exists so that you can move your
virt packages to the next version, while keeping the rest of your system
in tact, so virt preview for F13 allows you to run the F14
qemu/virt-manager/libvirt, etc built for F13.

Justin

[Richard W.M. Jones]

I'll say as a general point that no bug is ignored, it's just that no
one works on it because they don't have the time, or they don't care
about it as much as you do.  You can become a Fedora packager and fix
any bug you like yourself:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join

Rich.