Bug

Welcome to this 1st issue of DeDuBu contest, the monthly championship of the dumbest bug reported to the Debian BTS.

The challengers

  • Florent Bayle with #355455 (trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libpano12.la', which is also in package libpano12)
  • Samuel Hocevar with #207349 (fortune-mod: internal error) and #177244 (chromium: Infringing on Bruce Springsteen's Copyright)
  • Benjamin Drieu with #177128 (fetchmail initialisation fails on AIX 5.2 on JFS2 filesystem)
  • James Westby with #374599 (cupsys: bug reporter is hallucinating) and #371032 (cupsys: Upgrade to 1.2 broke printing on local parallel GDI printer)
  • Ken Bloom with #340111 (jython doesn't perform static initialization of classes called by other java classes)

How the vote has been done

Five Debian related people voted for these bugs: Pierre Habouzit, Pierre Machard, Julien Louis, Mohammed Adnène Trojette and Julien Cristau.

Full ranking

Bugs

  • #177244 (chromium: Infringing on Bruce Springsteen's Copyright) (28 points)
  • #207349 (fortune-mod: internal error) (26 points)
  • #374599 (cupsys: bug reporter is hallucinating) (16 points)
  • #177128 (fetchmail initialisation fails on AIX 5.2 on JFS2 filesystem) (15 points)
  • #355455 (trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libpano12.la', which is also in package libpano12) (10 points)
  • #371032 (cupsys: Upgrade to 1.2 broke printing on local parallel GDI printer) (9 points)
  • #340111 (jython doesn't perform static initialization of classes called by other java classes) (8 points)

Challengers

  • Samuel Hocevar (54 points)
  • James Westby (25 points)
  • Benjamin Drieu (15 points)
  • Florent Bayle (10 points)
  • Ken Bloom (8 points)

The winners

  • Bug: #177244 (chromium: Infringing on Bruce Springsteen's Copyright)
  • Challenger: Samuel Hocevar
  • Bug reporter: Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
  • Voter: Pierre Habouzit with the nearest ordered tiercé: [1] #177244, [2] #207349 and [3] #355455.

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