Comment 84 for bug 107188

BigPick,

You have been working incredibly hard on this, and I'm sure you are very tired
and frustrated. You have done a great service already. You have already fixed
the biggest issue and gotten the thing back to working much better. Many have
already reported that your patches have enabled them to get their system
upgraded.

Your frustration is evidence of your deep commitment to Ubuntu and to
excellence in everything you do. (And maybe a healthy dose of perfectionism
thrown in as well?) You have many comrades who understand exactly what it
feels like to bang your head against the wall, see the wall move farther than
anyone else has ever done before, and still be pissed off that you can't move
it the rest of the way.

This is open source: it's all volunteer. Don't lose your sanity over it. If
you are tired, take a break. Go do something else. One of three things will
happen: It will still be there when you get back and you will have fresh
perspectives, you will take a second look at it and decide you have better
things to do, or someone will have picked up where you left off. If the
problem is big enough, someone else will jump in to help, just like you did.

St Jude is the patron saint of difficult cases. Perhaps while you are taking
the weekend off, he can go have a talk with the One who programmed us
all. :-)

Happy Trails,

Loye Young

On Friday, October 26, 2007 5:01:06 pm BigPick wrote:
> All right, I am completely frustrated. First at my inability to fix the
> second memory leak and second by the total lack of developer input on
> this issue.
>
> My current working thoery is that commit() function in the Cache class
> of the python-apt library runs into an infinite loop if an archive
> install returns a result of "Incomplete". My inability to replicate this
> error, and lack of familiarity with the python-apt library have thwarted
> my attempts to fix the problem.
>
> For now, I am just going to post the third revision of my patch, which
> is essentially a regression. The patch no longer alters the types of
> Exceptions caught by the programs try/catch statements as this was
> mainly an attempt at getting more information. This revision just has
> the single memory leak fix.
>
> I am incredibly displeased and disgusted by this entire situation.
>
> ** Attachment added: "BigPick dist-upgrade patch rev 3"
>
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10180893/gutsy-dist-upgrade_bigpick_0.3.patch