Your message dated Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:49:02 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#1121578: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #412042, regarding devilspie: assertion failure messages for empty .ds file to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: devilspie Version: 0.20.2-1 Severity: normal If my .devilspie/ dir contains an empty foo.ds file, or one that is semantically empty, like this one-liner, ;(debug) then devilspie does not handle it very gracefully: $ devilspie got eof ** (devilspie:2934): CRITICAL **: e_sexp_eval: assertion `f->tree != NULL' failed ** (devilspie:2934): CRITICAL **: e_sexp_eval: assertion `f->tree != NULL' failed ** (devilspie:2934): CRITICAL **: e_sexp_eval: assertion `f->tree != NULL' failed ** (devilspie:2934): CRITICAL **: e_sexp_eval: assertion `f->tree != NULL' failed ** (devilspie:2934): CRITICAL **: e_sexp_eval: assertion `f->tree != NULL' failed ** (devilspie:2934): CRITICAL **: e_sexp_eval: assertion `f->tree != NULL' failed ** (devilspie:2934): CRITICAL **: e_sexp_eval: assertion `f->tree != NULL' failed ** (devilspie:2934): CRITICAL **: e_sexp_eval: assertion `f->tree != NULL' failed ** (devilspie:2934): CRITICAL **: e_sexp_eval: assertion `f->tree != NULL' failed ** (devilspie:2934): CRITICAL **: e_sexp_eval: assertion `f->tree != NULL' failed ** (devilspie:2934): CRITICAL **: e_sexp_eval: assertion `f->tree != NULL' failed ** (devilspie:2934): CRITICAL **: e_sexp_eval: assertion `f->tree != NULL' failed ** (devilspie:2934): CRITICAL **: e_sexp_eval: assertion `f->tree != NULL' failed ** (devilspie:2934): CRITICAL **: e_sexp_eval: assertion `f->tree != NULL' failed ** (devilspie:2934): CRITICAL **: e_sexp_eval: assertion `f->tree != NULL' failed -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages devilspie depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-5 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libwnck18 2.14.3-1 Window Navigator Construction Kit ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-5 X11 client-side library devilspie recommends no packages. -- debconf-show failed
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 0.23-5+rm Dear submitter, as the package devilspie has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1121578 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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