Re: salmon status in salsa

[Andreas Tille <andreas@fam-tille.de>]

Hi Étienne,

Am Sat, Nov 05, 2022 at 05:36:16PM +0100 schrieb Étienne Mollier:
> So I have been spending some time to try to put salmon back in
> working shape.  The code currently available in Salsa[1] builds
> through, but fails it's test suite.  Said test is fortunately
> straightforward to run, and from further analysis with the
> debugger and test rebuilds with the pristine upstream source
> code, I believe I isolated that the root cause of the test
> failure is that salmon crashes with a segmentation fault when
> built against libcereal 1.3.2, while it works properly when
> built against libcereal 1.3.0, which is the version vendored by
> upstream if a local copy is not available.

Thanks a lot for this detailed analysis.   As a quick (hopefully
temporary) solution I could imagine to keep the code copy of libcereal
for the moment.  At the same time it makes sense to inform salmon
upstream.

Thanks again
    Andreas.
 
> [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/salmon

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