Bug#834457: libgtk-3-0: inconsistent signed/unsigned length parameter in gtk_builder_new_from_string() and gtk_builder_add_from_string()

[D. B.]

Why are you reporting this here? Upstream would be happy to hear about it,
but it's not Debian's problem (and nor is it serious enough to warrant a
distro-specific patch)


On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Joe Pfeiffer <joseph at pfeifferfamily.net>
wrote:

> Package: libgtk-3-0
> Version: 3.21.4-1
> Severity: minor
>
> gssize is signed, gsize is not.
>
> gtk_builder_new_from_string() has the prototype
>
> GtkBuilder *
> gtk_builder_new_from_string (const gchar *string,
>                              gssize       length)
>
> It passes length to gtk_builder_add_from_string(), which has the
> prototype
>
> guint
> gtk_builder_add_from_string (GtkBuilder   *builder,
>                              const gchar  *buffer,
>                              gsize         length,
>                              GError      **error)
>
> This in turn passes length to _gtk_builder_parser_parse_buffer(), with
> prototype
>
> void
> _gtk_builder_parser_parse_buffer (GtkBuilder   *builder,
>                                   const gchar  *filename,
>                                   const gchar  *buffer,
>                                   gsize         length,
>                                   gchar       **requested_objs,
>                                   GError      **error)
>
> This passes length to g_markup_parse_context_parse(), with prototype
>
> gboolean
> g_markup_parse_context_parse (GMarkupParseContext  *context,
>                               const gchar          *text,
>                               gssize                text_len,
>                               GError              **error)
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (550,
> 'experimental'), (500, 'oldstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages libgtk-3-0 depends on:
> ii  libatk-bridge2.0-0                      2.20.1-3
> ii  libatk1.0-0                             2.20.0-1
> ii  libc6                                   2.23-4
> ii  libcairo-gobject2                       1.14.6-1+b1
> ii  libcairo2                               1.14.6-1+b1
> ii  libcolord2                              1.3.2-1
> ii  libcups2                                2.1.4-4
> ii  libepoxy0                               1.3.1-1
> ii  libfontconfig1                          2.11.0-6.5
> ii  libfreetype6                            2.6.3-3+b1
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                      2.34.0-1
> ii  libglib2.0-0                            2.49.4-1
> ii  libgtk-3-common                         3.21.4-1
> ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                      1.2.2-1
> ii  libpango-1.0-0                          1.40.1-1
> ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                     1.40.1-1
> ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0                       1.40.1-1
> ii  librest-0.7-0                           0.8.0-1
> ii  libsoup2.4-1                            2.54.1-1
> ii  libwayland-client0                      1.11.0-2
> ii  libwayland-cursor0                      1.11.0-2
> ii  libwayland-egl1-mesa [libwayland-egl1]  11.2.2-1
> ii  libx11-6                                2:1.6.3-1
> ii  libxcomposite1                          1:0.4.4-1
> ii  libxcursor1                             1:1.1.14-1+b1
> ii  libxdamage1                             1:1.1.4-2+b1
> ii  libxext6                                2:1.3.3-1
> ii  libxfixes3                              1:5.0.2-1
> ii  libxi6                                  2:1.7.6-1
> ii  libxinerama1                            2:1.1.3-1+b1
> ii  libxkbcommon0                           0.5.0-1
> ii  libxml2                                 2.9.4+dfsg1-1+b1
> ii  libxrandr2                              2:1.5.0-1
> ii  shared-mime-info                        1.6-1
>
> Versions of packages libgtk-3-0 recommends:
> ii  libgtk-3-bin  3.20.7-1
>
> Versions of packages libgtk-3-0 suggests:
> ii  gvfs             1.28.2-1
> ii  librsvg2-common  2.40.16-1
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
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