Re: [d-i] Yet Another bug with pre-sprintf malloc:ing

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Martin Sjögren 

| I found Yet Another bug with "pre-sprintf" malloc:ing in anna (in
| retriever.c, get_packages), a patch is attached.

thanks, applied.  Will try to remember to check in when I get online
again.. :)

| This got me thinking that we could avoid these kind of bugs if we had
| some sort of decent string lib. I think the glib string functions are
| pretty neat and my suggestion is to rip out the ones we need and put in
| libd-i, perhaps under the "namespace" di_str_. Specificially,
| g_strdup_sprintf would solve exactly these kind of problems for us.

can you try to do this, build the library and see how big it gets?  If
it's not a too big size increase, I say we go for it.

| Since Debian uses text files a lot, there's a lot of string juggling,
| and that's no fun to do in C unless you've got decent tools...

true.

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