Bug#260192: gedit: PATCH: premature free in egg-recent-view-gtk.c

[Peter Moulder]

Sorry, I didn't notice Sebastien's earlier message.  (Hmm, should get
mutt to sort threads by latest message rather than by earliest.)

Whether or not the patch has any effect for a given person may depend on
the implementation of `free' being used, and on what memory allocations
other library calls make.

Thus, running on the maintainer's machine, or even on a couple of
developers' machines (which are likely to be similar), may not be enough
to see whether the bug is harmless for all Debian gedit users.

I believe the patch was submitted on the basis of code inspection rather
than experience: the buffer was being freed and then subsequently passed
to another function, i.e. passing an invalid pointer.

I haven't yet verified whether the patch is still relevant to the
current version of gedit.

pjrm.