[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Bug#663096: xiphos: Xiphos segfaults against libsword-8 1.6.2

[Stanley Pinchak]

Package: xiphos
Version: 3.1.4-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

Xiphos fails to start and exits with a segfault after upgrading
libsword8 to 1.6.2+dfsg-1.  This makes xiphos unusable on systems where
this upgrade has occurred.  I resolved this segfault by rebuilding
xiphos against libsword8 1.6.2+dfsg-1.  After rebuilding xiphos with the
newer libsword it works as expected.  The solution appears to initiate a
build against libsword8 1.6.2+dfsf-1.  As there appears to be a binary
incompatibility between the two libsword8s, perhaps the dependencies
should be clarified.  This bug also effects ubuntu, see:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xiphos/+bug/783019

Thank you.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (901, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xiphos depends on:
ii  gconf-service             3.2.3-3
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.2.0-2
ii  libc6                     2.13-27
ii  libcairo2                 1.10.2-6.2
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.4.18-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.98-1
ii  libenchant1c2a            1.6.0-7
ii  libfontconfig1            2.8.0-3.1
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.8-1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.6.2-16
ii  libgconf-2-4              3.2.3-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.24.1-1
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.6.4-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.30.2-6
ii  libgsf-1-114              1.14.21-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.10-1
ii  libgtkhtml-editor-3.14-0  3.32.2-2.1
ii  libgtkhtml3.14-19         3.32.2-2.1
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.29.4-2
ii  libstdc++6                4.6.2-16
ii  libsword8                 1.6.2+dfsg-1
ii  libxml2                   2.7.8.dfsg-7
ii  xiphos-data               3.1.4-3

xiphos recommends no packages.

Versions of packages xiphos suggests:
pn  sword-text  <none>

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