[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#678714: kde-config-gtk-style: Applet tries to scan user home directory, endlessly following symlinks

[Grigory Ivanov]

Package: kde-config-gtk-style
Version: 3:2.0-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

At the initialization this KCM hangs infinitely. Strace shows, that module
walks through file system, follows circular symlinks, and never stops.

1. Following the symlinks without checking may cause an infinite loop if they
are circular. Search should not endlessly walk in circles.
2. Its pointless to fully scan user home directory anyways. What it is trying
to find? Size of mine ~ is several Tb, it contains millions of files, such full
scan would take hours. Search should be limited to some specific folders.



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

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
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 kde-config-gtk-style depends on:
ii  libc6            2.13-33
ii  libglib2.0-0     2.33.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0       3.4.2-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0      2.24.10-1
ii  libkdecore5      4:4.8.4-1
ii  libkdeui5        4:4.8.4-1
ii  libkio5          4:4.8.4-1
ii  libknewstuff3-4  4:4.8.4-1
ii  libqtcore4       4:4.8.2-1
ii  libqtgui4        4:4.8.2-1
ii  libstdc++6       4.7.1-1

kde-config-gtk-style recommends no packages.

kde-config-gtk-style suggests no packages.

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