[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#568049: gnumail.app: GNUMail systematically segfaults at startup

[Yavor Doganov]

reassign 568049 gnustep-gui 0.16.0-2
retitle 568049 [amd64] Apps abort on startup with exception in -[NSAttributedString attribute:atIndex:longestEffectiveRange:inRange:]
severity 568049 grave
fixed 568049 0.17.1-1
thanks

Ian D. Leroux wrote:
> > Then do `apt-get source cynthiune.app', install the build dependencies
> > if missing (apt-get build-dep cynthiune.app), rebuild it against
> > -gui/0.17 and `dpkg -i ../cynthiune.app_*deb'.
> 
> Success.

Great!

> I rebuilt cynthiune.app, and checked (with ldd) that the resulting
> Cynthiune binary links with libgnustep-gui.so.0.17 and not 0.16
> 
> I can now launch Cynthiune without seeing SIGSEGV

> Thank you for your patient explanations.

Thanks go to you for following up in detail.

> Would you like to investigate the matter further,

Out of curiosity, yes, I'd like to, but we can't backport the fix to
-gui/0.16 anyway as it is broken beyond repair with
gnustep-base/1.19.3 (#558993)...

> or just wait for the new packages?

...so we can only hope to start the GNUstep transition ASAP.

Thanks again for your efforts.