[Debian-med-packaging] r11969 - in trunk/packages/treeviewx/trunk/debian: . patches source

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 02:02:39PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 07:27:17PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > Le Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 10:13:07AM +0000, Timothy Booth a écrit :
> > > Log:
> > > This is an important fix as currently treeview doesn't work at all.
> > > 
> > > Only tested on Ubuntu but I suggest this should be pushed to Debian as
> > > release -3 as soon as it's tested.  Test case is simply:
> > > 
> > > tv /usr/share/doc/treeviewx/examples/tree.phb
> > 
> > Hi Tim,
> > 
> > on a mixed Squeeze / Wheezy system I do not experience the crash.  I will try
> > to test it on a Sid system later.

When looking at the patch I could perfectly assume that the issue is
arch-dependant.  Is there any information on what architecture the
crash occures.  It does not on amd64 but it might be on i386 where

   size_t(wbuf)

could potentially be < 256 (I did not tried).


> > If you want treeviewx to be patched in Wheezy, you will need:
> > 
> >  - A bug report that explains how to reproduce the crash, and
> > 
> >  - As few as possible changes between the update and 0.5.1+20100823-1.
> >    This means reverting some of your commits in the SVN (they are very
> >    welcome to be de-reverted later), ideally keeping only the addition
> >    of the patch, and the changes to the series and changelog files.
> 
> On my quite up to date Wheezy machine the problem does not exist and
> thus there is no point in filing an RC bug.  I'm fine with upgrading the
> package in unstable and uploading Tim's patch after doing the very same
> test successfully.

Tested, works, uploaded

      Andreas.

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