Bug#488013: libglib2.0-0: function g_ascii_strtoll is broken

[Flavio Poletti]

Hi,

   I noticed the bug while installing the latest Gtk2 Perl module in a
self-compiled perl (I prefer to avoid messing up with the system perl).
I saw that the system perl does not exhibit this problem, but the
installation in "my" perl went wrong due to the bug.

I don't know how much this qualifies as "software that breaks"
significantly. After some debug, and some search, I saw that the library
maintainers had already fixed the bug, and I thought it could be good to
propagate this into the debian packages. And avoid headaches to the next
one who will take my path :)

Personally, I solved re-compiling the package with the patch.

Cheers,

   Flavio.


> Le mercredi 25 juin 2008 à 20:15 +0200, Flavio Poletti a écrit :
>> g_ascii_strtoll is broken in 2.12.4, which comes streamline with Etch.
>> Patch for this is included.
>>
>> The implementation has been changed (I don't know exactly when) to cope
>> with errors while converting negative values. The proposed patch to
>> glib/gstrfuncs.c "upgrades" the function to the correct implementation
>> that can be found, for example, in 2.16.3.
>
> I’m not sure this bug mandates a stable update. Do you have examples of
> software breaking because of that and how?
>
> Thanks,
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