[DRE-maint] Bug#714501: drawBlendedUTF8() crashes when passed an empty string

[Youhei SASAKI]

Dear Ohbayashi-san, 

I forward this report from Debin BTS to you, upstream developer.

At Sat, 29 Jun 2013 21:38:26 -0400,
Joseph Nahmias <joe at nahmias.net> wrote:
> 
> Package: ruby-sdl
> Version: 2.1.2-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello,
> 
> While debugging a problem in magicmaze, a game which uses ruby-sdl, I
> tracked down the cause to a call to drawBlendedUTF8() which is passed an
> empty string.  This crashes the game.  I have implemented a workaround in
> magicmaze/1.4.3.6+dfsg-2, but I feel this should really be addressed
> upstream.
> 
> Thanks,
> --Joe
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 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 ruby-sdl depends on:
> ii  libc6                         2.17-6
> ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]      9.1.3-6
> ii  libruby1.8                    1.8.7.358-7
> ii  libruby1.9.1                  1.9.3.194-8.1+b1
> ii  libsdl-image1.2               1.2.12-3
> ii  libsdl-mixer1.2               1.2.12-5
> ii  libsdl-sge                    030809dfsg-3
> ii  libsdl-ttf2.0-0               2.0.11-2
> ii  libsdl1.2debian               1.2.15-5
> ii  libsmpeg0                     0.4.5+cvs20030824-5
> ii  ruby                          1:1.9.3
> ii  ruby1.8 [ruby-interpreter]    1.8.7.358-7
> ii  ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter]  1.9.3.194-8.1+b1
> 
> ruby-sdl recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages ruby-sdl suggests:
> ii  doc-base     0.10.5
> pn  ruby-opengl  <none>
> 
> -- no debconf information

Best Wishes,
Youhei, 
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