Bug#579025: libflac-dev: libFLAC.m4 may set empty -L flag

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Tue Jun 15 11:06:31 UTC 2010


Am 15.06.2010 12:30, schrieb Thibaut VARENE:
> Could you consider, as a mitigation between two extreme options, that
> in the event upstream fails to fix this bug in a timely fashion,
> whenever you upload a new version of libflac you'd include this patch
> with it? It can easily be reverted to whatever upstream finds sensible
> afterwards, and will at least ensure that newer versions of libflac
> aren't plagued with this bug. Since Debian is unaffected per se, the
> sourceful rebuild of affected packages is not necessarily mandatory,
> but there again, it would ensure that newer packages aren't affected
> anymore... Does that make sense?

Yes, this sounds reasonable. With "this patch" do you mean the one I 
already posted to this bug report or do you have another (maybe less 
invasive) one at hand?

  - Fabian





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