Bug

Welcome to this 7th issue of the DeFuBu contest, the monthly championship of the funniest bug reported to the Debian BTS.

The challengers

  • Loic Minier with #407127 (evolution: Dates before 1970 not supported, e.g. for birthdays) and #408989 (epiphany-browser: bugzilla.gnome.org inaccessible)
  • Sune Vuorela with #407849 (script for /usr/bin/preloadkde) and #409310 (kmines: Can cheat the timer)
  • Josh Triplett with #404915 (iceweasel: Icon resembles booger)
  • Jeroen van Wolffelaar with #408424 (apache2: "It works!")
  • Florent Bayle with #408524 (If I play piano while my computer starts up, /dev/dsp disappears !)
  • Christian Perrier with #408482 (xserver-xorg: please map French Canadian (cf) to Canada (ca) layout)
  • Frans Pop with #409018 (base: /etc/ld.so.nohwcap missing)

How the vote has been done

Four Debian related people voted for these bugs, Emmanuel Bouthenot, Mohammed Adnène Trojette, Julien Louis and Jade Alglave.

Full ranking

Bugs

  • #408989 (epiphany-browser: bugzilla.gnome.org inaccessible) (28 points)
  • #408524 (If I play piano while my computer starts up, /dev/dsp disappears !) (21 points)
  • #407849 (script for /usr/bin/preloadkde) and #408424 (apache2: "It works!") (18 points)
  • #407127 (evolution: Dates before 1970 not supported, e.g. for birthdays) (17 points)
  • #404915 (iceweasel: Icon resembles booger) and #408482 (xserver-xorg: please map French Canadian (cf) to Canada (ca) layout) (11 points)
  • #409310 (kmines: Can cheat the timer) (10 points)
  • #409018 (base: /etc/ld.so.nohwcap missing) (10 points)

Challengers

  • Loic Minier (45 points with 2 bugs)
  • Florent Bayle with (21 points with 1 bug)
  • Sune Vuorela (28 points with 2 bugs)
  • Jeroen van Wolffelaar (18 points with 1 bug)
  • Christian Perrier and Josh Triplett (11 points with 1 bug)
  • Frans Pop (10 points with 1 bug)

The winners

  • Bug: #408989 (epiphany-browser: bugzilla.gnome.org inaccessible)
  • Challenger: Loic Minier
  • Bug reporter: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
  • Voter: Emmanuel Bouthenot with two first bugs correct: #408524, #408989

Notes

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