[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#906980: kmer: autopkgtest fails with segfault in testing/unstable while it passes in stable

[Liubov Chuprikova]

Hi Andreas,

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 at 17:02 Andreas Tille <andreas at fam-tille.de> wrote:

>
> Ahhhhh, finally a pretty simple solution for a quite hidden problem.
>

I admit I have expected something more serious :-)


> BTW, I wonder whether there are tools that would warn about issues
> described in[1] - I think there are good means to detect this
> automatically.
>

I checked clang-tidy and it can warn about such issues. One more tool I
would like to know now together with continuing of learning C.


> Would you please forward this solution to upstream?  May be once you
> contact upstream asking for a versioned release for download would be a
> good idea.
>

I wrote to upstream about the bug. Hope, they are interested in providing
new releases.


> Please note that I moved the data file into a separate package
> kmer-examples to avoid duplication of the data files and enable users
> installing the code without the data.  Thus the package needs to pass
> the new queue (hope this will happen soon).
>

Yes, thank you for this! I was not sure about putting data in a separate
package as the data were small and there were no lintian warnings about
this.

Thanks a lot for you fine work.  I think this issue is something you
> can be really proud about since your work uncovered an issue and you
> finally was able to fix it.


I was happy to finally delete kmer from my list as it was hanging for so
long :-P


> I really hope you will be able to
> continue this work even if GSoC is close to finished.  May be, if you
> have time you could continue a bit.

I'd be very happy about this.
>

Many, many thanks to you for mentoring me! I definitely have time till
September 10 before my master program starts. I would like to look into
unicycler and maybe something else.

With regards,
Liubov
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