Bug#559785: qutecom: embeds libpurple

Ludovico Cavedon ludovico.cavedon at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 15:10:25 UTC 2009


Michael Gilbert wrote:
> qutecom embeds libpurple, which makes security updates troublesome.
> please update the package to dynamically link to the system libpurple
> libraries. thanks.

There is a more deep issue, i.e. qutecom is not using libpurple in a
thread-safe way, which is causing a crash with the system library
http://trac.qutecom.org/ticket/175

Fix for that is not easy, and may require some time :(

Ludovico





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