Bug#566143: libloudmouth1-0: contains outdated copy of asyncns which has data alignment issues on armel

[Tanguy Ortolo]

severity 566143 grave
tag 566143 pending
thanks

Le jeudi 21 janvier 2010, Sascha Silbe a écrit :
> loudmouth bundles an outdated copy of asyncns which has data alignment
> issues (gcc even warns about them) causing it to break on armel (tries
> to send a 1MB datagram and fails silently). Since it cannot resolve
> the Jabber server the whole package is unusable on armel.

Yes indeed. I think this justifies bumping the severity to grave.

> Please note that the version of asyncns currently in Debian (0.3 -
> current upstream version is 0.8) has this issue as well (so it needs
> to be updated before the Debian loudmouth package can use it).

I have fixed this bug in the libasyncns package by backporting an
upstream fix. As I am not a Debian Developper, the fix requires
sponsoring, but when it is uploaded, dynamically linking agains
libasyncns instead of embedding resolves this.

I have prepared an updated version of this package for that [1]. The
manual modifications are small, but resulting file modifications are
quite important because it requires to regenerate the configure script.
This update too will not enter Debian until someone uploads it for me. I
some DD comes across this bug, I need sponsoring!  Now let me search for
sponsoring.

[1] http://dick.ortolo.eu/~tanguy/deb/loudmouth/loudmouth_1.4.3-5.1.dsc

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