[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#787639: pinentry: pinentry-curses.c:773: dialog_input: Assertion `!"setbufferlen failed"' failed

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Package: pinentry-curses
Version: 0.9.3-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Hi

After updating pinentry-curses from 0.9.2-1 to 0.9.3-1 pinentry-curses
is not usable anymore. Stracing the process shows that it reaches the
assertion:

write(2, "pinentry: pinentry-curses.c:773: dialog_input: Assertion `!\"setbufferlen failed\"' failed.\n", 90) = 90

Downgrading to 0.9.2-1 resolves this problem.

Regards,
Salvatore

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages pinentry-curses depends on:
ii  libc6          2.19-18
ii  libglib2.0-0   2.44.1-1
ii  libncursesw5   5.9+20150516-2
ii  libsecret-1-0  0.18.2-1
ii  libtinfo5      5.9+20150516-2

pinentry-curses recommends no packages.

Versions of packages pinentry-curses suggests:
pn  pinentry-doc  <none>

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