Bug#627966: libglib2.0-0: Weird Flash Player Sounds relating to changes made to memcpy in glib upstream

[Paul Jones]

Package: libglib2.0-0
Version: 2.28.6-2
Severity: normal

Hi, on my current Sid system, I'm experiencing weird sounds in the audio when
playing flash on the web.

This problem has been identified in the following Redhat report.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c46

And the following is the link to the actual bug report to glib, submitted with
packages by Linus Torvalds.

Upstream glib decided to change the way memcpy was handled, in 64-bit, and it
broke binary compatibility, and as such, it creates the problems I am
experiencing with flash sound.

Supposedly, this was closed by upstream glib, and declared to not be a bug.

I share the opinion of Linus, that this should be fixed by Debian in a similar
way to how Fedora has corrected this, until it is fixed upstream and comes into
Debian in that manner.

Paul Jones

I currently have a workaround if intersted. It is based on workarounds posted
in the first thread I referenced. But it does not mean the bug shouldn't be
fixed.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-4.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
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 libglib2.0-0 depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.13-4           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libpcre3                8.12-3           Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libselinux1             2.0.98-1+b1      SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages libglib2.0-0 recommends:
ii  libglib2.0-data               2.28.6-1   Common files for GLib library
ii  shared-mime-info              0.90-1     FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa

libglib2.0-0 suggests no packages.

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