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

[Youhei SASAKI]

Dear Ohbayashi-san, 

  Thanks for your quick reply. 

Dear Joseph, 

  I already upload newer ruby-sdl, ver. 2.1.3-1 into Debian unstable.
  Please check the problem you reported.

Sincerely yours,
Youhei

At Tue, 11 Feb 2014 03:21:17 +0900,
OHBAYASHI Ippei <ohai at kmc.gr.jp> wrote:
> 
> Hello SASAKI-san,
> 
> This problem is already fixed in the latest version of Ruby/SDL. 
> Please check it.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 09:23:59PM +0900,
>  Youhei SASAKI wrote:
> 
> > 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

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